Denied packets process-switched - no longer?

Warning: possibly useful operational content follows. Read at your own risk.

Regarding the possible denial-of-service implications of cisco routers
process-switching packets which have been denied by an access-list (as
was mentioned previously on this list), I received the following update
in this morning's list-of-bugs-and-their-new-status via email:

==>Warning: possibly useful operational content follows. Read at your own risk.
==>
==>Regarding the possible denial-of-service implications of cisco routers
==>process-switching packets which have been denied by an access-list (as
==>was mentioned previously on this list), I received the following update
==>in this morning's list-of-bugs-and-their-new-status via email:

I've tested this image in my lab and it works very well. 2 pps head to
process level to send unreachables, the rest are quickly dropped in the
fast path.

/cah