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

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) by Lagg on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:32AM (2 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:32AM (#499753) Homepage Journal

    This works for me. [a.co] Have had it a few years now and dd-wrt updates don't appear to be an issue. Also I could probably throw it through a wall in a furious rage and it'd still work fine with antennas attached. Seems to be one of those models where the ears actually help a little.

    Besides, who uses linksys these days. Threw my last one through a wall in a furious rage when the lean dd-wrt bricked it.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @07:26AM (#499886)

    I have a Buffalo router and it is great (running OpenWRT). Even the company is great (at least, when I last interacted with the a few years ago). I sent them an email thanking them for their stance on alternative firmware and the person responded appreciatively and said they would bring it up in the meeting they were about to go in to.

    And I know they did.. because a few hours later, I got an email from the CEO saying he was happy the product was working well for me and that he was proud his company had provided that.

    tl;dr Buffalo's CEO has, at least once, personally responded to a nobody on the internet saying "thank you".

    • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:13PM

      by pTamok (3042) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:13PM (#499992)

      I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 which has been rock-solid stable for years (running on an internal, non-Internet connected network) using OpenWrt 10.03.1 (Backfire). It has too little memory and flash to reliably run a more up to date version ( https://wiki.openwrt.org/about/history [openwrt.org] ), but I've recorded more than a year's uptime before now.