Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by TekMol on Saturday July 15, 2017 @08:24AM (#14776319)

Does this affect laptops running Linux? How do you know if you are vurnurable?

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Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by tyingq on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:15AM (#14776485)

This should show if you have a BCM43xxx device:

$ lspci | grep -i BCM43

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Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by tarruda on Saturday July 15, 2017 @08:58AM (#14776425)

If you have broadcom wifi, then probably you are

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Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by avh02 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:31AM (#14776533)

googling for solutions/patches/fixes for ubuntu don't seem to yield much (though that doesn't give me much confidence). I wonder if it's just drowning in the noise about android/ios

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Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by tyingq on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:53AM (#14776608)

You would expect to see it first here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/

The b43 devs would be the ones to add new firmware. I don't see any activity around this CVE there, however.

Probably the right place to ask though.

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Re:Broadcom BCM43xx Wi-Fi chips allow remote attackers to ex... by AdmiralAsshat on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:39PM (#14777867)

Linux laptops should be fine--no one can ever get Broadcom working on Linux anyway.

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