12.02.08 15:54 Age: 330 days
Security hole of Eee PC found
Category: other notebook news
The Asus Eee PC has got a security hole in the preinstalled Linux, which enables easy accessing this 7” notebook.
The experts at Rise-Security found a security hole of the Asus Eee PC, while testing the Samba daemon. They discovered that a root access from the outside to the Eee PC is easily possible by using a network connection. Up to now, there was no update released by Asus, and the only possibility of closing this security hole is shutting down the Samba daemon after booting.
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