IOS (Score 1)

You all act as if Cisco's IOS hasnt been in the open for years.

-r-------- 1 -- -- 55804111 15 Jan 2002 IOS-11.2-8.tar.gz

or perhaps

-rw-r--r-- 1 -- -- 152437 15 Jan 2002 CHANGES.112-7.4-8.1
drwxr-xr-x 14 -- -- 10240 15 Jan 2002 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 -- -- 6144 15 Jan 2002 micro
drwxr-xr-x 8 -- -- 2048 15 Jan 2002 snmp-em
drwxr-xr-x 5 -- -- 2048 15 Jan 2002 subsys
drwxr-xr-x 167 -- -- 26624 15 Jan 2002 sys
drwxr-xr-x 3 -- -- 2048 15 Jan 2002 wbu

The src for 11.2 has been around for ever.
Noted that its some 7 years old but if they lost it once.

I can find no evidence that any exploits created from back when this came out until now are based on this code so I can only assume that exactly the same events will happen now.
A few hackers will keep the code as a momento and no one will be bothered looking for bugs. Well no one who has the skills to find them anyhow.

In 11.2 there are some 258416 lines of code. I expect that in 7 years has become probably 2 million lines. Sure there will be bugs . there has to be. but I still cant see any reason to stress out over it.