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Millions of devices at risk with 14 vulnerabilities found in BusyBox
These Denial of Service vulnerabilities may be present in 40% of embedded firmware images
By now, you’ve likely heard about the fourteen vulnerabilities found in the BusyBox userspace tool earlier this month, affecting millions of embedded devices running Linux-based firmware.
Firmware developers are advised to upgrade to the new version (BusyBox 1.34.0) where the vulnerabilities were fixed.
But it shouldn’t stop with this one upgrade. This CSO article gives a detailed look at the vulnerabilities found, and highlights the need for monitoring and remediation of security vulnerabilities as well as regular updates: “Enterprises should have patching policies in place that take into account their IoT and OT devices and should generally choose devices from vendors that commit to releasing regular and timely security updates for their products.”
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