Re: Broadband CPE Vulnerability Tool?

[Scott Davidson <scott () d3fcon org>]

Nicolas RUFF wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a vulnerability scanner for broadband router CPE such as Netopia, Flowpoint, Siemens? It looks 
> > like none of the big names like Nessus do this..
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> IMHO there are too many firmware revisions, too many flaws and not
> enough business for such a vulnerability scanner ...
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> For example, the Linksys WRT54G comes in 4 families with 10 hardware
> revisions and numerous firmware sub-revisions ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
>
> It would be just like tracking every XSS flaw :)
>
> Regards,
> - Nicolas RUFF
>
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That's what is going to make Cisco's planned virtual processes so sweet 
to worms and script kiddies, predictable memory locations independent of 
hardware, firmware or IOS build. Fatal flaw in their thinking meant to 
be a work around for the pain of parallel development for each variation.

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Scott Davidson, CISSP, SCSP, CCNA
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