Also promising -- or troubling, depending on your point of view -- is the addition of new services such as voice over IP (VoIP), which can create a more client-like attack surface on routers, and the federally mandated Lawful Intercept Functionality, which enables wiretapping and can create vulnerabilities in service provider equipment.
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Staring Into The Gorge: Router Exploits - Renesys Blog - 0 views
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er somewhere in the world. It contains a payload that is unusual, but strictly speaking, conformant to protocol. Most of the routers in the world, when faced with such a message, pass it along. But a few have a bug that makes them drop sessions abruptly and reopen them, flooding their neighbors with full-table session resets every time they hear the offending message. The miracle of global BGP ensures that every vulnerable
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