Cisco IPv6 processing bug can cause DoS attacks

Cisco has announced that NCS 6000 and Carrier Routing System (CRS-X) – heavy hunks of iron used in the service provider market – have an IPv6 software bug that needs patching. The bug impacts the ways Cisco IOS XR units parse IPv6 packets and an attack exploiting the problem could result in a forced restart of the line card …

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this even news.

All vendors publish advisories regularly that explain new found risks and mitigations... those usually being to upgrade (and apply an ACL meanwhile, or similar)

Im not a borg fan, but to try to make news from this is a real stretch.