Companies issued warnings about possible vulnerabilities in some of their equipment, and continue to update the lists of products that may be affected.

Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com

April 11, 2014

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Cisco, Juniper Treating Gear Against Potential Heartbleed

Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks are among the latest technology companies working to address potential problems related to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug.

Both companies issued warnings about possible vulnerabilities in some of their equipment, and continue to update the lists of products that may be affected, or have received patch fixes, or have been confirmed as unaffected.

Among Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) gear listed as "vulnerable" to the bug are Cisco's MS200X Ethernet Access Switch and its Mobility Service Engine. Meanwhile, the Cisco 7000 Nexus Series switches and UCS fabric components are among those products that have been confirmed as not vulnerable.

Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR)'s advisory includes its Juno OS version 13.3R1, though earlier versions of the OS are listed as not vulnerable.

Since news about the Heartbleed bug broke earlier this week, numerous companies reportedly are reviewing their products and services to size up the possible risk, so there may be more advisories to come from other telecom firms.

In addition to the actions by Cisco and Juniper, Telenor issued an advisory to customers in Norway to change passwords for their Telenor services, even though it has classified the Heartbleed threat as "low." (See Eurobites: Telenor Counters Heartbleed Threat.)

And it wouldn't be a networking issue if there wasn't some sort of virtualization angle. Check out this InformationWeek article that suggests SDN might have a solution to the kind of problems Heartbleed is posing.

— Dan O'Shea, Managing Editor, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Dan O'Shea

Analyst, Heavyreading.com

You want Dans? We got 'em! This one, "Fancy" Dan O'Shea, has been covering the telecom industry for 20 years, writing about virtually every technology segment and winning several ASBPE awards in the process. He previously served as editor-in-chief of Telephony magazine, and was the founding editor of FierceTelecom. Grrrr! Most recently, this sleep-deprived father of two young children has been a Chicago-based freelance writer, and continues to pontificate on non-telecom topics such as fantasy sports, craft beer, baseball and other subjects that pay very little but go down well at parties. In his spare time he claims to be reading Ulysses (yeah, right), owns fantasy sports teams that almost never win, and indulges in some fieldwork with those craft beers. So basically, it's time to boost those bar budgets, folks!

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