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RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jul 28 20:19:57 2005

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:14:34 +0900
To: "Geo." <geoincidents@nls.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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> I think there is also a LOT concern about all the unpatched routers that
> remain unpatched simply because the admins don't feel like spending a week
> running the cisco gauntlet to get patches when you don't have a support
> contract with cisco. Its like cisco doesn't want you to patch or they would
> make it easy.

could they be unpatched because no one has sent out a notice saying
"versions before X have known vulnerabilities.  upgrade now to one
of the following: ...?"

randy


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