Cisco details controversial router flaw | CNET News.com
Bet if it hadn’t been for Michael Lynn’s stand up act at Blackhat; we all would still be in the dark about this. Older versions of the Internetwork Operating System, or IOS, are flawed in the way they process IPv6 packets, Cisco said in its advisory. A specially crafted data packet could let a miscreant gain control over the router, but an attack is possible only from a local network segment and only on systems configured for IPv6, Cisco said.
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