full-disclosure - Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

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Message-ID: <20050729184703.GA18758@linux.unixwiz.net>
Date: Fri Jul 29 19:47:18 2005
From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl)
Subject: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -1000, Jason Coombs wrote:
> 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.

So you're suggesting that Cisco should have adopted security by
obscurity for its hardware design?

Really?

Steve

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