[70460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Sun May 16 04:54:44 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>,
Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <013901c43b03$3f18ff40$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
You do not have to steal the code, you can buy a cisco
router from an equipment reseller and have all the
access you want.....
-Henry
--- Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
>
> Hmm, it's all interesting. EFnet IRC again...
>
> Does anyone have a full logs of EFnet IRC
> conversations? We used to
> participate in it 6 years ago (when fighting hackes
> in Russia),
> and it was very useful for following trends (of
> course, after you dump a
> heaps of junk).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michel Py"
> <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
> To: "John Kinsella" <jlk@thrashyour.com>;
> <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:45 PM
> Subject: RE: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
>
>
>
> Rough translation of:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45221.html
>
> May, 15 2004
>
> Leak of code CiSCO IOS source code?
>
> As it became known to SecurityLab, the source code
> of operating system
> CISCO IOS 12.3, 12.3t, which is used in the majority
> of Cisco network
> devices has been stolen on May 13, 2004. The total
> volume of the stolen
> information represents about 800MB in an archive
> file.
>
> According to the information available to us, the
> leak of fragments of
> the source code occurred because of a break-in into
> the corporate
> network of Cisco System.
>
> Representatives of Cisco System have not made any
> comments about the
> break-in so far.
>
> A person whose alias on *darknet@EFnet IRC is
> "franz" has given a small
> parts of the source code (about 2.5 Mb) as proof.
>
> Below are links to the first 100 first lines of
> source code of:
>
> ipv6_tcp.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45222.html
>
> ipv6_discovery_test.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45223.html
>
>
