[attrition] Cisco: There is no fixed software for this issue.

[security curmudgeon]

http://www.attrition.org/security/rant/cisco01.html

Cisco: There is no fixed software for this issue.
Fri Feb 4 01:55:02 EST 2005
Jericho

I think it is time to give up on Cisco.

Most professionals in the security industry have long since given up on 
vendors such as Microsoft and resigned ourselves to the fact that they 
don't understand security, and that for all the marketing and PR these 
companies never will. Year after year, we see stupid and trivial security 
bugs pop up in their software. Often times these are the same 
vulnerabilities reborn with a new product, or the same class of 
vulnerabilities creeping back into the code due to poor programming 
practices. In other cases, vulnerabilities are found and supposedly 
patched by vendors. Days or weeks later, it is discovered that the patch 
does not fully mitigate the original problem and can be bypassed and the 
software is still vulnerable.

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