Cisco IOS 12.3 and 12.3t source leaked

Cisco's IOS software for versions i think 12.3 and 12.3t sources have been leaked. I have a small part of the souce, only 2 of the source files. Anyone else hear about this? I dont know if posting the source files are a good idea or not on here?

These the two files you’re referring to?
http://www.securitylab.ru/45221.html

yeah, i didnt know if it was alright to post them or not, someone woulda negged me a billion times for givin the board a bad reputation or something. I havent heard anything from cisco or nothing, no press releases or nothin.

If it is proprietary source code for a CURRENT system, I would say no.

Don't post it, it's just wrong.

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I havent heard anything from cisco or nothing, no press releases or nothin.

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Indeed, which makes me wonder how true this leak is. I haven't seen it anywhere (not even on sensational CNN.com) where it would be validated a true (a reliable source like securityfocus.com, incidents.org, heck, even The Toronto Star). I got told in another forum that because CISCO isn't replying it must be true. I have doubts since if it was true and was serious, they would have dealt with it.

Has anyone seen it at a reliable source yet beyond the Russian site (they've published stuff before that was sensational and never hit any other place).

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I got told in another forum that because CISCO isn't replying it must be true.

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By that logic, JFK really was killed by the CIA, Elvis really is still alive, and Tupac is in the Bahamas.

EDIT: Slashdot has the story, it may be tue...

Here is a link that sheds a little more light on the situation. http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084683212.html
Now with out a significant portion of the code or an official statement from Cisco it will be hard to tell what’s real and what’s BS.

I wonder how many vulnerabilities will see from this if the whole code ends up in circulation?

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Slashdot has the story, it may be tue...

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I looked and couldn't see it. Gotta link?

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Here is a link that sheds a little more light on the situation. http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084683212.html

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Not really. They are merely commenting on the SecurityLabs claim and aren't adding anything new, other than an opinion of the "what if".

http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5213724.html

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An unspecified amount of the proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware has appeared on the Internet, the technology giant acknowledged early Monday.

While the company was investigating whether a breach had lead to the leak, a representative could not confirm whether that network intruders had made off with the software equivalent of the crown jewels: some 800 megabytes of the networking giant's source code.

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Now that is a confirmation and that means ugly and scary possibilities. :(