A series of Cisco products have serious errors

Cisco Systems has just had to release patches for a series of wireless products after security firm Net Assurance detected security flaws in these products.

Specifically, Assurance has discovered a security error in Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine, Cisco Hosting Solution Engine (HSE), Ethernet Subscriber Solution Engine (ESSE), CiscoWorks2000 Service Management Solution (SMS), Cisco VLAN Policy Server (VPS) and ME1100 Series belongs to Cisco Management Engine.

Cisco officially announced these patches on April 20, with the help of Assurance from January 31, 2006, to fix related issues.

Adam Pointon - CEO of Assurance - affirmed that these are vulnerable vulnerabilities and could allow the installation of a 'rogue administrator' account - to access the system. operate by entering a special command into the Cisco command-line administration interface.

' Successful exploitation of security errors can allow a fake admin account to install unauthorized software on the device without being detected. That is really a serious problem . '

Neal Wise of Assurance said that if these devices were not properly maintained, it could become a burden for businesses. However, Wise also greatly appreciated the ability to quickly fix Cisco errors.

Cisco spokesman said there has not been an attack to exploit the security flaws mentioned above. Customers should quickly update the patches via its website.

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