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userbinator • today at 9:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

unless affected Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are willing to migrate.

...or someone spends a bit of time with an AI to come up with a patch? Bonus points for one that can be remotely installed using the same exploit...


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simoncion • today at 9:43 PM

> ...or someone spends a bit of time with an AI to come up with a patch?

Based on the guy's slides [0], it seems like Broadcom has already released a fixed version. The slide numbered as 97 contains this part of what I assume is an email with Broadcom:

  Thank you for your above-cited report. This report is based on Broadcom’s 18.1 SDK release.
  
  Broadcom has known about this specific vulnerability for a long time; other external entities have also reported it to us. For several years, Broadcom has been offering its customers updated software that lacks this vulnerability.
  
  In particular, the WPS implementation in this old software package (based on WPS Monitor) was obsoleted several years ago and replaced starting in 2018 by a new implementation based on HostAPD and WPA Supplicant.
The blog post makes it sound like there was no updated version, but the guy's email with Broadcom says otherwise. If we knew the name of the SDK, we could check the release notes and maybe get the truth. I gave up after like a minute of searching for the name, but perhaps others are more interested in the search than I am.

[0] <https://quentinkaiser.be/assets/qkaiser-broadcom-wps-hexacon...>

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