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3? Try 2. Linux my-host-name-here 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Nearly all the (medical instrument) hardwa
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3? Try 2.
Linux my-host-name-here 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Nearly all the (medical instrument) hardware where I work (a major hospital) is on 2.x, mostly running RHEL 5.
- usr1106 4y agoOne would assume that medical device vendors could pay for extended support. However, even extended support for HEL 5 has ended now. And even before that in heavily regulated industry that uses such old stuff I would assume rolling out updates is a very slow progress. Maybe not all that stuff connects to the internet, but I bet an ever increasing share does. So hospitals might have wose firewalls than others, so I would not surprised about such equipment being successfully attacked. Of course old versions are unaffected because by newly introduced vulnerabilities. But old ones that have existed "forever" get detected. I guess it's not the kernal alone that is so old, but user space, too.