ISS vs. Cisco: Chapter 2

From: FX (fx_at_phenoelit.de)
Date: 08/11/05

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    Dear list reader,

    this morning I found to my complete surprise the following email in my inbox,
    which sheds some light from a different angle on the whole ISS and Cisco
    story:

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    FX,

    I heard you have got shell code working against IOS. Can you share
    any details, or provide the code?

    Thanks,

    Chris

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    Chris Rouland
    CTO
    Internet Security Systems, Inc.
    http://xforce.iss.net
    crouland@iss.net

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    The inclined reader may verify Mr. Rouland's signature using his key:
    http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD35186CC

    I appreciate Mr. Rouland acknowledges the work Phenoelit has done
    on Cisco IOS and actually realises that Michael Lynn build on this work
    for his exploit, while the actual shellcode was entirely different from
    codes we were using.

    According to various sources, Michael Lynn was supposed to give copies
    of his hard drive content to ISS and Cisco
    (http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/07/ciscogate_updat.html),
    which leaves the question why ISS needs our shellcodes.

    Mr. Rouland, the information you are looking for is posted at
    http://www.phenoelit.de/ultimaratio/index.html since 2002 and was
    presented at the BlackHat USA Briefings in the same year:
    http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-02/bh-usa-02-speakers.html#FX

    Phenoelit continues to look for and find bugs in Cisco IOS. We will also
    continue our excellent relationship to the people at PSIRT to help fixing
    these vulnerabilities and may release advisories covering those when, and
    only when the respective fixes are available, tested and released by Cisco.

    I leave the ethical aspects of this request by ISS for the consideration
    of the inclined reader.

    cheers
    FX

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             FX <fx@phenoelit.de>
          Phenoelit (http://www.phenoelit.de)
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