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OpenWrt supply chain attack scare prompts urgent upgrades (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago

Prompt response and open statement about it can't ask for much more than that. D-link might just tell you to kick rocks and buy a new router.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

Thankfully they didn't find any evidence of it being used, but they promptly fixed the issues and informed everyone. Great example of amazing management.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Spooren said the SHA-256 hash is truncated to 12 characters, significantly reducing its complexity, potentially allowing attackers to generate collisions.

Wtf. Who thought this was acceptable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dislike the term "supply chain" to describe this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It made me think it was going to be about the open source router. Seems like an intentionally misleading title to generate more clicks...