From: Scott Davidson (scott@d3fcon.org)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 09:52:51 EDT
Nicolas RUFF wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a vulnerability scanner for broadband router CPE such as Netopia, Flowpoint, Siemens? It looks like none of the big names like Nessus do this..
>>
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> IMHO there are too many firmware revisions, too many flaws and not
> enough business for such a vulnerability scanner ...
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> For example, the Linksys WRT54G comes in 4 families with 10 hardware
> revisions and numerous firmware sub-revisions ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
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> It would be just like tracking every XSS flaw :)
>
> Regards,
> - Nicolas RUFF
>
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That's what is going to make Cisco's planned virtual processes so sweet
to worms and script kiddies, predictable memory locations independent of
hardware, firmware or IOS build. Fatal flaw in their thinking meant to
be a work around for the pain of parallel development for each variation.
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