Cisco breaks cycle with IOS patch
Preemptive defence against rootkit exploits?
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Cisco released a trio of updates on Wednesday. The advisories cover denial of service vulnerabilities in IOS Secure Shell and its Secure Control Engine software. The escalation update involves Cisco's voice engine portal software.
The network giant states that it discovered all three vulnerabilities itself but the timing of the releases, on the day before Sebastian Muniz of CORE Security demoed proof of concept router rootkit software, may be more than simply coincidental. As researchers at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre note, the IOS Secure Shell bug allows "spurious memory access".
"Anytime we see a 'spurious memory access' leading to a denial of service, thoughts immediately go to arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence that this is possible, but in light of the recent work in IOS rootkits, vulns in Cisco devices should not be taken lightly," writes ISC staffer George Bakos.
Cisco launched a twice-yearly patching cycle for IOS vulnerabilities back in March. The IOS Secure Shell falls outside this cycle, providing further fuel for conspiracy theorists.
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Ambiguity Clouds Transparency
AC,
Are we to assume from "take that amanfrom" that such a Facility is Available Uniting Nations?
The next logical question would be from Whom or What, for you never know, it could be a Machine Issuing Instructions.
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- ""the IOS Secure Shell bug allows "spurious memory access"."
I think that can easily evolve, and may even have done so, into myriad memory access....... for Future Memory Manipulation .....into AIMemeStream for Kernel Colonisation ......Uniting Nations.
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take that amanfrom
Dear Secretary General, Wanna Play with GODs as AI GOD Novice* ... under Venus Rules, Naturally?
"the IOS Secure Shell bug allows "spurious memory access"."
I think that can easily evolve, and may even have done so, into myriad memory access....... for Future Memory Manipulation .....into AIMemeStream for Kernel Colonisation ......Uniting Nations.
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