Mediatek vulnerability

[#1]

Partner here claims the Hub one router we have has a Mediatek chip - true or not? They re seriously bad news and many OEMs are poor at updating the firmware to address security issues. Not true with our Plusnet kit surely?

https://www.xda-developers.com/mediatek-su-rootkit-exploit/

[#2]

Not true.

The Hub One is a rebadged BT Home Hub 5 revA which uses a Lantiq chipset

[#3]

That link relates to mobile phones.

I'd assume that Mediatek makes many thousands of different chips - which one are you concerned about?

Anyway, it relies on a local user (that's you) running a script to hack into the phone/device and installing a rootkit.

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[#4]

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@DaveyH wrote:

Not true.

The Hub One is a rebadged BT Home Hub 5 revA which uses a Lantiq chipset

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OK, tracing back the info my partner had found, indeed the recent issues are with phone systems, not routers. Taking the router to bits shows Lantiq Systems-on-Chip not MediaTek.

https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a

Router software/firmware seems a year or so old though - no security updates for a while!

[#5]

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@VileReynard wrote:

Anyway, it relies on a local user (that's you) running a script to hack into the phone/device and installing a rootkit.

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Any system that allows updating remotely - like Plusnet - can be 'updated' by a malicious person, no?

[#6]

No, but if you add unprotected in your quote you might be right, if they knew how to find it.