back to article Cisco patches NetBIOS vuln

It's 2016, and Cisco's ASA software can be owned by a malicious NetBIOS packet. A remote attacker can watch for the NetBIOS probes sent out by ASA's identity firewall feature, send back a crafted packet in response, and either crash the system or execute arbitrary code. Appliances in the ASA 5500 series are affected, along …

  1. Brian Miller
    WTF?

    NetBIOS is still a thing?

    Wow, I last worked with NetBIOS in the early 1990s. Anybody still using 45cps Teletypes, too? How about IP over pigeon?

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