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It's not the AliExpress routers that worry me (although Walmart should have negotiated for better firmware), it's all the "name brand" routers that are running
by voltagex_ 6y ago
It's not the AliExpress routers that worry me (although Walmart should have negotiated for better firmware), it's all the "name brand" routers that are running a 2.6.34brcm Broadcom kernel that'll never see another firmware update.
- perlin 6y agoWhat specifically about this firmware version worries you?
- voltagex_ 6y agoI probably shouldn't have picked that one in particular, it's just front of mind at the moment. That one might be better updated than others - but if it is, they don't seem to update the version number making tracking difficult, a lot of the vendors will stop providing updates to old devices. The other problem is that if you have a Mediatek, Broadcom, Ralink, Hisilicon vulnerability (all have their own kernel forks and driver forks) then every device downstream using that kernel or driver is vulnerable, and not all devices will get fixed. Even if the vendor or upstream fixes it, who upgrades their router firmware?