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Cisco's NAC solution can manage network equipment, provide guest access, and even respond to security threats.

And also fix up these other holes that can be exploited via HTTP requests, SQL injection, etc Share Copy Cisco this week emitted patches for four sets of critical-severity security holes in its products along with other fixes. The worst of the bugs can be exploited by sending specially crafted IP packets to a vulnerable installation, and overflowing a memory buffer to ultimately execute code as root on the machine, allowing the box to be completely commandeered. Another set of flaws can be abused by sending HTTP requests that trigger arbitrary command execution to again hijack the mac...

By Juha Saarinen on Jan 22, 2021 9:50AM Remote code execution with root privileges possible. Cisco has issued patches for multiple flaws in its SD-WAN products that could allow unauthennticated remote threat actors to attack vulnerable devices. The network equipment vendor said one buffer overflow vulnerability that lets unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary code with root superuser privileges is due to incorrect handling of internet protocol traffic. By sending specially crafted IP traffic through a vulnerable device, attackers could trigger a buf...