[176934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars breaks Misfortune Cookie vulnerability news to public
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Javier J)
Fri Dec 19 18:50:02 2014
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:49:53 -0500
From: Javier J <javier@advancedmachines.us>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Glad I'm using a freebsd based routing solution.
On Dec 19, 2014 5:54 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> While the flaw is 12 years old and the fix 9, the article suggests that
> firmware for consumer routers may yet be being built with the vulnerable
> webserver code baked in.
>
> If you are responsible for lots of eyeballs you might want to look at this.
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/12-million-home-and-business-routers-vulnerable-to-critical-hijacking-hack/
>
> Have a nice Christmas weekend. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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