"We confirm that we are aware of this information, but we can't confirm the validity of the claims," says Cisco spokesman John Noh. "Here's what we know: This information resulted from a brief mention of it from a researcher at the BlackHat conference who had presented about something else, and he threw up a slide at the end of the presentation about a possible vulnerability affecting the PIX firewall."
Cisco's Product Security Incident Response team is currently investigating the issue. While it plans to issue a formal response, Cisco provided no details on when it would do so.
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