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Flaw Found iIn Ethernet Device Drivers

Posted by Hemos on from the yay-for-security-bugs dept.

Licensed2Hack writes "Security researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability that may be present in many Ethernet device drivers that is causing the devices to broadcast sensitive information over networks. Seems the device driver writers couldn't be bothered with a memset() call. Eweek has their typical (puffy, low on tech details) take on it here. Since they don't specify the OS, I'm assuming these are drivers for Windows." It's actually Linux, *BSD, and Windows.

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  1. Trolls in the caves of /. by Czernobog · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obvious but necessary: If articles could be modded (a la kuro5hin), this would have been a -1 Troll....

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