We're two weeks into 2019, and an email can potentially knacker your Cisco message box – plus other bugs to fix

Cisco's security team's holiday season has ended with a bang: 18 patches, but thankfully only one of them rated “critical”. Switchzilla's E-mail Security Appliance's AsyncOS operating system has the honour of 2019's first-and-worst in CVE-2018-15453. The bug affects how the appliance handles S/MIME-signed e-mails. If the …

[Big Al 23]

Digital crims don't take holidays

They spend all of their time hacking and harming society.

[Updraft102]

Headline generator:

It's $DATE, and $THING is possible.

[ThomH]

It's two weeks into 2019, and El Reg is still not witty enough to come up with better headlines.

[John Smith 19]

It's 2018 and people still can't right protocol handlers properly.*

Under what circumstances should a mal formed message ever attempt to be processed rather than discarded?

Another classic failure of a SW development pattern.

*Hint. If the protocol can be expressed in a state diagram design the core of the handler in an FSA design tool and have it write the actual code.

Just how many message protocols are so complex they need a Turing complete language to handle all the possibilities?