Zero-day flaws in widespread TCP/IP library open millions of IoT devices to remote attack

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19 vulnerabilities – some of them allowing remote code execution – have been discovered in a TCP/IP stack/library used in hundreds of millions of IoT devices deployed by organizations in a wide variety of industries and sectors. “Affected vendors range from one-person boutique shops to Fortune 500 multinational corporations, including HP, Schneider Electric, Intel, Rockwell Automation, Caterpillar, Baxter, as well as many other major international vendors,” say the researchers who discovered the flaws. About the … More

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