Cisco patches IP phones

To think, there once was a time when you didn't have to worry about your phones, of all things, getting infected with viruses. Well, those carefree days are officially over: this week Cisco released a series of patches for buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilities in a number of its IP phones. The affected models are as follows: Cisco Unified IP Phone models 7940, 7940G, 7960 and 7960G. In related news, Cisco also patched its Unified Communications Manager this week, due to a vulnerability that could have allowed for SQL injection attacks.

For more on the patches:
- see this ZDnet article