{"id":11533,"date":"2019-10-19T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2019-10-19T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:38:05","slug":"linux-kernel-bug-im-wi-fi-teil-ermglicht-angriffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/10\/19\/linux-kernel-bug-im-wi-fi-teil-ermglicht-angriffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel Bug in Wi-Fi driver puts machines at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Linux.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"76\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/linux-kernel-bug-im-wi-fi-teil-ermglicht-angriffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Once again, a violent bug has been discovered in the Linux kernel that allows an attack on machines via Wi-Fi. Attackers can crash or even attack the machines via the vulnerability. The bug has been in the Linux kernel since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bug has been mentioned on Twitter by Mico Waisman, who recently found the bug.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Found this bug on Monday. An overflow on the linux rtlwifi driver on P2P (Wifi-Direct), while parsing Notice of Absence frames.<br \/>\nThe bug has been around for at least 4 years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rigXOEId29\">https:\/\/t.co\/rigXOEId29<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vlVwHbUNmf\">pic.twitter.com\/vlVwHbUNmf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nico Waisman (@nicowaisman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicowaisman\/status\/1184864519316758535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The error occurs with Wi-Fi direct connections in the Realtek Linux <em>rtlwifi<\/em> driver and causes a buffer overflow. There is now an entry <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CVE-2019-17666<\/a> for this bug. Arstechnica has published an article with further information on this <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2019\/10\/unpatched-linux-flaw-may-let-attackers-crash-or-compromise-nearby-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">topic here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Once again, a violent bug has been discovered in the Linux kernel that allows an attack on machines via Wi-Fi. Attackers can crash or even attack the machines via the vulnerability. The bug has been in the Linux kernel since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/10\/19\/linux-kernel-bug-im-wi-fi-teil-ermglicht-angriffe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921,580],"tags":[637,2047],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-security","tag-linux","tag-secutiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}