After a six-day wait, Cisco started rolling out a patch for a critical bug that miscreants had exploited to install implants in thousands of devices. Alas, it seems to have been largely useless.
The flaw in the networking giant’s IOS XE software, which allowed criminals to hijack thousands of Cisco switches and routers, first came to light last Monday. On Friday, Cisco said it hoped to have a fix ready on Sunday, ruining the weekend for many admins.
The good news: Cisco kept its Sunday promise and made available the first fixed software release, 17.9.4a, with more updates to come at a still undisclosed date.
