Re: [Full-disclosure] Getting Off the Patch

["Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" <cal.leeming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

failovers*

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the IOS has a remote exp vuln, then hell yes. That is, until the client
> tells us to go f*ck ourselves as the downtime would affect their SLAs and
> they don't have fall overs in place. lol.
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Pete Smith <seclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I agree with most of the stuff that Thor has been saying and from what I
>> have read this has mostly been centred around patching software on servers.
>> However most large companies take the don't patch or patch infrequently
>> stance when it comes to network infrastructure, Cisco, Juniper, 3COM, HP and
>> other large network infrastructure companies by no means have a clean record
>> when it comes to vulnerabilities in their software but yet businesses will
>> often not patch even in environments that are highly redundant and can be
>> rebooted with no or little impact.
>>
>> Can anyone seriously say that they patch every time Cisco releases a new
>> version of IOS?
>>
>> ...
>>
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