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Major vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi module that could have been exploited to gain root access and take complete control of a device's wireless communications.
Although the issues uncovered by Vdoo were verified only on RTL8195A, the researchers said they extend to other modules as well, including RTL8711AM, RTL8711AF, and RTL8710AF.
The flaws concern a mix of stack overflow, and out-of-bounds reads that stem from the Wi-Fi module's WPA2 four-way handshake mechanism during authentication.
The flaws concern a mix of stack overflow, and out-of-bounds reads that stem from the Wi-Fi module's WPA2 four-way handshake mechanism during authentication.