On June 24, 2009, the The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has published 2 new vulnerability advisories. 1) Cisco Physical Access Gateway Denial of Service Vulnerability A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the Cisco Physical Access Gateway. There are no workarounds available to mitigate the vulnerability. This vulnerability has been corrected in Cisco Physical Access Gateway software version 1.1. Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. Vulnerable Products Cisco Physical Access Gateway running software versions prior to 1.1 are vulnerable.

It is not common see a Cisco crash: Software forced crash, Bus Error, Software watchdog timeout, and so on… But if you would do it, there is a pretty trick : it’s the “test crash” command, an hidden IOS command. This can help you if you are lucky enough to have the real crash exactly like one of those you can test with “test crash” command.

Do you remember Cisco Developer Contest started on October 14, 2008? During this period, nearly 900 registrants from 75 countries have take part to the challange, but only 10 finalist teams are enjoying with the second (last) phase. Now, during the second phase of the contest, started from May 15, 2009, until August 15, 2009, the top-10 finalists will work with Cisco to bring the applications to maturity using Cisco resources on Cisco virtual AXP blades. After a final judging period, a winner will be announced in October 2009. These finalists come from four different continents: North America: Team Cupertino Systems, [...]