RE: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy Bush wrote:

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I think there is also a LOT concern about all the unpatched routers that remain unpatched simply because the admins don't feel like spending a week running the cisco gauntlet to get patches when you don't have a support contract with cisco. Its like cisco doesn't want you to patch or they would make it easy.

could they be unpatched because no one has sent out a notice saying "versions before X have known vulnerabilities. upgrade now to one of the following: ...?"

or... cause new IOS won't run on them.