Cisco discloses self-sabotaging SSD bug that causes rolling outages for some Firepower appliances
Boxes stop working, admins may be locked out after 28,224 hours – and then every 1,008 hours after that
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Cisco has detailed a bug that causes 43 models in its Firepower security appliance range to stop passing traffic and perhaps also prevent logins to the devices’ management console.
A field notice dated May 18 explains that “due to a flaw in solid-state drive (SSD) firmware, the SSD that is internal to the FPR9300 Supervisor module and FPR4100 Series security appliances will no longer respond after approximately 3.2 years of cumulative operation. ....