Thursday, April 12, 2012

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Any thoughts ? Wicked (WICD) exploit found in Linux WiFi

 

Thanks for the info and advice.

On 4/12/2012 7:50 AM, Roy wrote:
> I know that Fedora has updated it to fix it and would guess that Ubuntu
> has, but users of this application should check that it has been upgraded
> in the past week.
>
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 12.04, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
>
> On 12 April 2012 00:00, G.LinuxDucks<g.linuxducks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> *Wicked (WICD) exploit found in Linux WiFi*
>> SC Magazine Australia
>> By Darren Pauli on Apr 12, 2012 3:13 AM
>> A zero day exploit has been discovered in popular wireless Linux manager
>> WICD that allows an attacker to spawn a root shell on a target machine.
>> The privileged escalation exploit affects the latest versions of ...
>>
>> http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/296699,wicked-exploit-found-in-linux-wifi.aspx
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
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