Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
How ironic. Yesterday on HN someone said "Google Security Team, here's your call to stop pontificating on the Project Zero blog and throwing cheap muck at Microsoft. You've got an even bigger and more complicated mess to clean up, you dug the hole yourself, it's going to take you longer, and you should have started on it years ago" [1]And today we have this very impressive counter-example of Google putting some engineers to work for months doing vuln research for making, in the end, EVERYONE safer: Apple users, Samsung users, and hundreds of other mobile device vendors who use this popular Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset in products shipped to 1B+ users.But no, somehow, tomorrow again it is going to be all Google's faults that Android-derived commercial works are insecure and poorly maintained by their respective vendors.[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023969