Cisco Wi-Fi boxes writing 5MB of undeletable data daily

Cisco tells Webex users to patch critical security flaws immediately, as experts find its Wi-Fi boxes may be filling their disks with undeletable data every day

Four critical flaws were recently patched, and some AP versions are creating undeletable, growing files.

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes writing 5MB of undeletable data daily

: Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory

Flawed Cisco update threatens to stop APs from getting further patches

Cisco admins are scrambling to patch a critical flash memory overflow vulnerability in over 200 Cisco Systems IOS XE-based models of wireless access points (APs), caused by a recent flawed software update. If the issue is not corrected quickly, the AP’s memory will become so flooded that new software updates will be blocked and the AP rendered insecure, or possibly even bricked. The problematic library update causes a specific log file in the fl…

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day

Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates. . . .