full-disclosure - Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

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Date: Fri Jul 29 20:00:54 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

> How about adopting an architecture that incorporates special-purpose 
> security safeguards into the CPU? Routers and switches don't need to 
> execute arbitrary code, Cisco knows ahead of time, before they deploy a 
> product, what code that product should be allowed to execute.

But how many times over the years has a IOS upgrade added a useful 
feature? .. securing the physical hardware to not accept new (aka: 
'arbitrary') code would make a *lot* of rack-mount paperweights.