full-disclosure - Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

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Date: Fri Jul 29 19:41:26 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

> Cisco is responsible for this entire mess. Had they engineered a secure 
> product around a CPU that was not general purpose, none of this would be 
> happening now.

Okay .. so we write 'special purpose' shellcode then. Cisco could have 
designed the CPU as a ASIC, at the expense of being able to 
field-upgrade like they can with software -- or they could have used 
something like a FPGA to emulate an ASIC, at the expense of cost.

Everything's a trade off.

~Mike.