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Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nobody's-perfect dept.

thisispurefud writes "A flaw has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to run malicious code and take control of a laptop, even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network."

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  1. I am a bit confused... by Skiron · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... this was fixed 4 months ago?

    http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842

  2. Fixed Dec 15th on my box by swillden · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... this was fixed 4 months ago?

    It looks that way to me.

    Unless this is a different vulnerability, Debian applied the fix over four months ago, two days after the patch was available, and eight days after the vulnerability was first reported

    I saw the article and immediately started aptitude to get the fix, only to discover that I already got it, two weeks before Christmas. Nice.

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  3. Re:Fixed! -not! by LibertarianWackJob · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hi "Joe"
    You won't be getting any updates for FC3 since the Fedora Project has dropped support for that. If you like the Fedora distribution you can go with FC6 or wait for May 24 when FC7 is due to be released. Otherwise, Ubuntu is a fine distribution.

    Try this:

    su -

    crontab -e

    # cron for root
    # update system at 4AM daily
    0 4 * * * /usr/bin/yum update
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