full-disclosure - Re: vswitches: physical networks obsolete?

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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:46:36 +0100
From: Luigi Rosa <lists@...girosa.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: vswitches: physical networks obsolete?

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phocean said the following on 06/02/11 16:58:

> So my worries remain... how do they address this?
> You don't mean that we have to wait for the next 0-day for the VMware
> claim to be proved false? There are coding vulnerabilities everywhere.

We could wait for the next 0day of HP procurve, Cisco Catalyst or Dell
PowerConnect firmware as well ;)

The history of software bugs so far tells us that, until now, the chance to have
a 0day of a firewall is greater than the chance of the 0day of a switch firmware.

I am not telling that switches are bulletproof, I am only talking about probability.

Ciao,
luigi

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