Cisco Fixes A Dangerous Problem With Its WLAN Software

Cisco has managed to fixed a vulnerable problem that was seen in its wireless LAN controllers WLC software.

Cisco Systems noticed a highly vulnerable problem with its Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) software and has managed to fix it. This critical problem might have caused major cyber-attacks and breach of security, which was not only seen in WLAN softwares but also the ASA software and Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol that were utilized in numerous products of the IT organization.

The IT giant’s negligence to at least three out of five software issues, which was noticed in the WLAN Controller, were used for securing wireless networks and even managing them. The most threatening issue was the incorrect handling of the HTTP traffic, which enabled attackers to send requests to any device and overflowing buffering.

Cisco Systems WLC devices were badly affected from this issue, such as the ones running on 7.3, 7.2, 7.4 and many others. The first top-rated vulnerability was the chances of exploitation by any attacker, while the second vulnerability was the handling of HTTP traffic with chances of exploitation in the same manner. Another DOS issue was indicating similar threats of security breaches in the Cisco AireOS, which enabled attackers to access URLS that are not accessible and even supported by the interface of the device.

The Information Technology organization’s vulnerability with the library was in the encryption subsystems, which was failing to validate fields and opening it to hacking and cyber-attacks. Twenty products of the company consist of this library problem affecting almost all of the versions of 1.5.3. The Product Security Response Team of the IT giant is claiming that it was not aware of these issues but is still working with the users and customers to update the software and fix these dangerous problems.

Software updates can be expected to provide solutions to these problems the company has noticed. The list of products that have been affected is too long, such as the Cisco Jabber, ASA software, WebEx Meetings Servers and many more.

Cisco has always been conscious of security in its products and will manage to fix the issues shortly. It has even introduced anti viruses for its users, so that hackers do not victimize them. Most of the work is done online. Users now have almost all of their data on their computers and phones, which has attracted even more hackers to take advantage and attain the sensitive data for their own benefits putting the users in a vulnerable position. In the world, today, internet and electronic is more important than anything, which the tech company is well aware of, and is now trying to fix the problems as soon as possible.