WiFi bug found in Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Apr 14, 2007 1:07 AM EDT
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A bug has been found in the MadWiFi Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based WiFi chipsets that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop - even when it is not on a WiFi network. The MadWiFi development team have released a patch. However, not all Linux distributions have yet built the patch into their code.

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