Big bad Bluetooth bug battered – but not everyone's got a patch

Big bad Bluetooth bug battered – but not everyone's got a patch

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/

With a bunch of security fixes announced and more on the way, details had been made public of a Bluetooth bug that potentially allows miscreants to commandeer nearby devices.

This Carnegie-Mellon CERT vulnerability advisory on Monday laid out the cryptographic flaw: firmware or operating system drivers skip a vital check during a Diffie-Hellman key exchange between devices.

Big bad Bluetooth bug battered – but not everyone's got a patch

Jul 24, 2018, 3:13am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/bluetooth_cryptography_bug/ > With a bunch of security fixes announced and more on the way, details had been made public of a Bluetooth bug that potentially allows miscreants to commandeer nearby devices. > This Carnegie-Mellon CERT vulnerability advisory on Monday laid out the cryptographic flaw: firmware or operating system drivers skip a vital check during a Diffie-Hellman key exchange between devices.