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Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-consequences- dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

More than three months after being informed about remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in 25 router models, Linksys is[sic] yet to issue patches to remedy them.

Researchers at IOActive Labs wrote that they had informed Linksys of 10 flaws on 17 January, six of which could be remotely exploited by unauthenticated people.

But as of last week, all that Linksys had done was to notify users through a public post and suggest workarounds until patched firmware was ready.

Given Linksys' inactivity, the IOActive Labs researchers said they were holding off on providing the full technical details of the flaws until patched firmware was ready for download.

Shit, even we can manage a fix in six months...

Source: http://www.itwire.com/security/77772-three-months-on,-no-linksys-router-patches-for-remote-holes.html

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:31PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:31PM (#499642)

    See that's what happens when you have a critical shortage of IT workers. Patches don't get written in a timely fashion. We need more H1B visas to fix the problem.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:43PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:43PM (#499657)

    If only we had Basic Income and Open Source then Many Eyes could make the Bugs Shallow.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 26 2017, @05:08AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @05:08AM (#499839) Journal

      Basic Income? No, we clearly need Python Income.

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 26 2017, @04:05PM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @04:05PM (#500122) Homepage

      If only we had Basic Income and Open Source then Many Eyes could make the Bugs Shallow.

      Bingo!