Just hours after security experts revealed a new attack capable of taking down any device receiving TCP requests, Cisco Systems Inc. said that a large portion of its routers and switches contain a serious software flaw that also could be used by attackers to knock those devices offline.
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The vulnerability is in Cisco’s implementation of the SNMP in the IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software that runs much of the company’s ubiquitous networking equipment.
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