Mediatek vulnerability
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Mediatek vulnerability
08-03-2020 12:54 PM
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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?
Re: Mediatek vulnerability
08-03-2020 2:28 PM
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Not true.
The Hub One is a rebadged BT Home Hub 5 revA which uses a Lantiq chipset
Re: Mediatek vulnerability
08-03-2020 2:41 PM
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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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Re: Mediatek vulnerability
09-03-2020 3:16 PM
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@DaveyH wrote:
Not true.
The Hub One is a rebadged BT Home Hub 5 revA which uses a Lantiq chipset
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!
Re: Mediatek vulnerability
09-03-2020 3:19 PM
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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.
Any system that allows updating remotely - like Plusnet - can be 'updated' by a malicious person, no?
Re: Mediatek vulnerability
09-03-2020 3:48 PM
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No, but if you add unprotected in your quote you might be right, if they knew how to find it.
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