Cisco warns of Access Control Bypass and DoS in Gigabit Ethernet switches Cisco issued a warning last week saying a bug in their IOS software could cause problems for their Gigabit Ethernet Switches that are configured Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet cards. The problem could also stop an interface from forwarding packets, resulting in a denial of service issue. Cisco is working on a patch for the problem. For more information, click above. Denial of sevice problem with some version of Cisco IOS A defect in multiple Cisco IOS software versions will cause a Cisco router to reload unexpectedly when the router is tested for security vulnerabilities by security scanning software programs.
Cisco recommends upgrading affected systems as soon as possible.
Windows James Madison University and others find Trojan horse infection on Windows PCs. According to the Allaire alert, the problem lies within the ColdFusion mechanism that manages the parsing of passwords within authentication requests. This problem makes the ColdFusion Administrator login page vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A fix is expected in version 4.6. Click above for workaround.