full-disclosure - RE: Getting a clue at Cisco

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Date: Tue Aug  2 14:50:35 2005
From: asimmons at messagelabs.com (Andrew Simmons)
Subject: RE: Getting a clue at Cisco

Sam Evans wrote:

> Just curious -- if the April patch fixed the vulnerability discussed, then 
> that would mean (according to Cisco) that the vulnerability affected IPV6 
> and not IPV4, correct?
>  

As has been pointed out elsewhere - IPv6 is enabled by default on many 
(all?) Cisco devices. The target machine has to be on the same network 
segment as the attacker, too, which restricts attacking hosts to, uh,.. 
other routers...

\a

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