Is Cisco VoIP vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks?

Don't be "very, very afraid." Just know what potential dangers lurk out there.

An article in Light Readingdescribes a recently discovered Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) security flaw, and how the flaw could lead to denial-of-service attacks across Cisco-enabled VoIPnetworks.

If you want to learn more about this specific issue, read the Cisco Security Advisory entitled Vulnerability in Cisco IOS Embedded Call Processing Solutions.

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