Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens 'Internet Of Things' (Dark Reading)

Posted Jun 27, 2014 0:58 UTC (Fri) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)
Parent article: Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens 'Internet Of Things' (Dark Reading)

A blog post with some more technical details, including source snippets with the problem. (Link buried well down in article linked to by LWN.)

Ewen

Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens 'Internet Of Things' (Dark Reading)

Posted Jun 27, 2014 8:41 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

Errr... I'm confused. This seems to talk about LZ4; the parent article seems to talk about LZO; LZ4 and LZO seem to be different algorithms... Or maybe not?

Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens 'Internet Of Things' (Dark Reading)

Posted Jun 27, 2014 10:21 UTC (Fri) by kiko (subscriber, #69905) [Link]

They are derived from each other (or at least related); the securitymouse article even points out that both have the same bug.