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Re:Four Remote Packet-Of-Death Vulnerabilities Found in Linu... by cjbprime on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:23PM (#9541701)
It's a "staging" driver; not a big deal, you are almost certainly not using this driver.
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Re:Four Remote Packet-Of-Death Vulnerabilities Found in Linu... by zx2c4 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:24PM (#9541710)
I wouldn't jump to such conclusions so fast about the deployment and usage of this driver. Included with many distributions and several devices require its usage.
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Re:Four Remote Packet-Of-Death Vulnerabilities Found in Linu... by cjbprime on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:59PM (#9541938)
It doesn't look to be enabled in Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint or OpenSuSE to me, which covers the top five. Which distributions are you referring to?

I see OpenSUSE disabled it back in 2013 with a commit message '"Take it behind the barn and shoot it." says Michal. :)', presumably in response to inspection after its previous vulnerabilities -- http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/?id=2c1...

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