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Because they won't support routers that were EOL a decade ago?

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 65 points 1 month ago

Companies should be forced to release all source code for products that are "EOL". I will never change my mind on this.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Especially for stuff like medical implants

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

'Sorry, your eyes are no longer supported'

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

And anything that touches on security (i.e. connected to the internet), and routers definitely count here.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 43 points 1 month ago

May 1st 2024 was a decade ago? (The article has a list and only two are old as you mention, though not quite a decade yet)

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Because that bug was so egregious, it demonstrates a rare level of incompetence.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 19 points 1 month ago

that bug was so egregious, it demonstrates a rare level of incompetence

I wish so much this was true, but it super isn't. Some of the recent Cisco security flaws are just so brain-dead stupid you wonder if they have any internal quality control at all... and, well, there was the Crowdstrike thing...

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Idk, this was kind of a rare combination of "write secure function; proceed to ignore secure function and rawdog strings instead" + "it can be exploited by entering a string with a semicolon". Neither of those are anything near as egregious as a use after free or buffer overflow. I get programming is hard but like, yikes. It should have been caught on both ends

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Some of the recent Cisco security flaws are just so brain-dead stupid you wonder if they have any internal quality control at all

At the super budget prices Cisco charges, do you really expect quality control to be included? You've got to buy a quality control subscription for that. /s

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Most reached EOL in may of this year.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Then they can open source the code so someone else can fix the issue.

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