WiFi Bug Warning

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:52:11 -0700
John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:

> 
> Remotely executable Wi-Fi bug found in Linux
> 
> Researchers are reporting the first-ever remotely executable Wi-Fi bug 
> for Linux, and though the information was released at last month's 
> Black Hat, not all distros have patched yet.
> 
> http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1459379/1288270/59513/2/

Why would they: madwifi is a proprietary non-free driver not shipped by
any free software distirbution.

Alan