[olug] wifi device driver exploits

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Sat Sep 22 21:20:27 UTC 2007


On Saturday 22 September 2007, Rob Townley wrote:
> You have probably heard by now that David Maynor has posted his paper
> on remotely hacking a machine over WiFi.  Although entitled "OS X
> Kernel-mode Exploitation in a Weekend", it makes Windows and Linux
> vulnerable, but for some reason that isn't talked about in his
> article.

I'd like to know how this bug affects Linux. Since it's with Apple hardware, 
presumably the chipset is the infamous Broadcom, which had to be reverse 
engineered and rewritten entirely under Linux...



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