<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/article.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/article.html</a><br><br><h1 class="artTitle">Wi-Fi Bug Found in Linux</h1>
<h2 class="artSubtitle">A
major Linux Wi-Fi driver contains a bug that can allow an attacker to
take control of a laptop--even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.</h2>
<h3 class="artByline">Peter Judge, <a href="http://Techworld.com">Techworld.com</a></h3>
<div class="artDate">Friday, April 13, 2007 01:00 PM PDT</div>
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<p>A bug has been found in a major Linux
Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop --
even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.</p>
<p>There have not been
many Linux Wi-Fi device drivers, and this is apparently the first
remotely executable Wi-Fi bug. It affects the widely used MadWi-Fi
Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wi-Fi chipsets, according
to Laurent Butti, a researcher from France Telecom Orange, who found
the flaw and released the information in a presentation at last month's
Black Hat conference in Amsterdam.</p>
<p>"You may be vulnerable if
you do not manually patch your MadWi-Fi driver," said Butti. Before
making it public, he shared the flaw with the MadWi-Fi development
team, who have released a patch. However, not all Linux distributions
have yet built the patch into their code, said Butti.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.<br> - Niels Bohr