Wi-Fi software security bug could leave Android, Windows, Linux open to attack (Ars Technica)

In the case of a successful code execution there are indeed no guarantees, but by this point you are simply left asking: is your typical attacker interested in crashing us, or in spying on us or sending spam through us? And with the exception of ransomware the typical attacker would like to either remain unnoticed or keep the system working well enough that he can do his nefarious deeds. So it is *quite likely* that the thing will still be working.

To give a limit case of sorts, I would be very unhappy to fly in a jet with an avionics system vulnerable to arbitrary code execution, but if I had to, I'd hope like hell that any attacker was going to parlay his arbitrary code execution attack into something *other* than a DoS. In this sort of situation DoSes really are strictly worse: even though in terms of *attack classes* they are a subset of arbitrary code execution attacks, in terms of consequences they are very much not. I don't care if the aircraft I am on is sending spam or has someone peering through its cameras. I do care very much if it falls out of the sky.