Linux also affected by hole in Ralink's Wi-fi driver

Jan 29, 2009, 23:03 (4 Talkback[s])

"Attackers can exploit the hole to crash a computer remotely or possibly even inject and execute arbitrary code. Debian has released new packages for the rt2400, rt2500 and rt2570 models, but the packages need to be compiled by the user for the time being."

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