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Date: Fri Jul 29 23:06:30 2005 From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:17:48 +0200, Jochen Kaiser said: > maybe I am wrong, but with high end switchrouter I thought that routing > protocols are handled by IOS by the cpu - after calculated, the topology > is programmed in e.g. TCAM memory. That's the *point* - the CPU is what's vulnerable here. A suggestion was made to replace the CPU with an ASIC or FPGA. I pointed out that if you did that, then the ASIC would have to do BGP4, because otherwise there'd not be a routing table loaded in the TCAM memory for the line cards to use.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20050729/9d4b6fb7/attachment.bin
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