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[News] Windows Users, Switch Off Your Wi-Fi

Alarm Raised for Critical Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver Flaw

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| The vulnerability, which exposed as part of the MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) 
| project, is a stack-based buffer overflow in the Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS 
| wireless device driver that could be exploited by attackers to take 
| complete control of a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft's Windows operating system is exploitable without the
| existence of an access point or any interaction from the user.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The bug was first discovered by wireless security guru Jon "Johnny
| Cache" Ellch, the researcher who was embroiled in a controversy with
| Apple over similar bugs in the Wi-Fi driver that ships with
| the Mac OS X.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061111/tc_zd/193827

Back to work, Linux users. Nothing to see here. *smile*

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