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#6243

Just like everyone else here.

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#6244

wi fi is now working on debian woot.

#6245

Intel ?

#6246

Honestly donā€™t now what the wifi base is for the laptop. The processor though is amd.

#6247

Im gonna guess broadcom. lspci will tell you for sure

#6248

So I guess Iā€™m getting battalion 1944 and codes for streaming
house-gif

Ok then AMD I guess?
Not really going to say no because for once Iā€™m interested in an FPS which hasnt happened in ā€¦ A long timeā€¦ But still

#6249

yep broadcom. I was rebooting when you asked.

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#6250

thank god they finally released a open source version of their driver but the license is stupidly restrictive

https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12358410

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#6251

What you have to specifically agree to a license agreement to download an open source driver? how open even is it?

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#6252 
Licensee shall not decompile, reverse engineer, modify, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software

Is fairly bad

Is it deriving source code if you give it too me?

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#6253

ah so pretty much not open at all then :frowning:

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#6254


in response to this

KDE Project Security Advisory
=============================

Title:          Plasma Desktop: Arbitrary command execution in the removable device notifier
Risk Rating:    High
CVE:            CVE-2018-6791
Versions:       Plasma < 5.12.0
Date:           8 February 2018


Overview
========
When a vfat thumbdrive which contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged
and mounted trough the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command,
leaving a possibility of arbitrary commands execution. an example of offending
volume label is "$(touch b)" which will create a file called b in the
home folder.

Workaround
==========
Mount removable devices with Dolphin instead of the device notifier.

Solution
========
Update to Plasma >= 5.12.0 or Plasma >= 5.8.9

Or apply the following patches:
Plasma 5.8:
    https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/9db872df82c258315c6ebad800af59e81ffb9212
Plasma 5.9/5.10/5.11:
    https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/f32002ce50edc3891f1fa41173132c820b917d57

Credits
=======
Thanks to ksieluzyckih for the report and to Marco Martin for the fix.
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#6255

Bassicly you are only allowed to compile it. Cant really even look at the source code :frowning:

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#6256

Not surprised. All that means is that they are using a shell script to parse and mount the drive.

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#6257

Well thats just dumb, no wonder why broadcom hardware is so bad on linux, just yet another reason not to like them :frowning:

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#6258

Yea but they are the ones making the Chips that run the Internet.

#6259

pfft, their chips arenā€™t running my internet.

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#6260

Well you might fined it is, the make a lot of the Switching chips in in SDN (Datacenters) and Carrier Networks.
Itā€™s only Brodcom & Brocade (which i think is acquired by Brodcom)

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#6261

I grabbed the wrong iso for debianā€¦ aww that was my bad. I grabbed the live one instead of the proper install one. Iā€™m writing the right one now to the usb stick.

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#6262

No idea if this thread will actually accomplish something or not but is a fun read none the less

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/what-would-you-like-to-see-from-the-l1-forums-and-community-this-year/124524/

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