Critical Wireless Flaw Leaves Windows Users Open To Attack

"A critical vulnerability in a wireless driver used in PCs sold by Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and others will be tough to patch, a security researcher said Monday, even though exploit code has already been published and attacks are possible.

The vulnerability in the Broadcom wireless driver went public Saturday as part of the "Month of Kernel Bugs" project; the same day, an exploit was added to the Metasploit Framework, a penetration testing tool. Although the researcher who discovered the flaw had earlier reported it to Broadcom, patches may be slow in coming since each computer and third-party wireless card maker tweaks the generic Broadcom code for its own hardware. "

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