在 2021-12-25星期六的 03:15 -0800，Jonathan Ryshpan写道： > On a whim I opened up the: > Legal Disclaimer Open Source Licenses > in the management page for my fiber modem (ATT installed 2021/03/30) > and discovered that the kernel is rather old: > linux kernel - Version 3.4.11 > There are about 163 other open source components, probably most of > similar ages. > > Is this a security problem? Yes, for such a old device, the vendor may have stopped receiving vulnerable reports or publishing updates. And you device is connected to network, that make things worse.
Usually, a botnet is made up of those unmaintained but still running device. I happened to have read a article about a botnet build on hacked modems in China, https://blog.netlab.360.com/pink-en/ in this case, when devices gets hacked, the only to "fix" is a replacement. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en- > US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproje > ct.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure -- Qiyu Yan GPG keyid: 0x4FC914F065F2DF12 About: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yanqiyu
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