[Cerowrt-devel] Mofi still shipping Barrier Breaker (14.07)

[Stephen Hemminger]

I ended up replacing an Asus router because they were still using 3.14 with
no upgrade planned
 The issue is vendor closed source blobs


On Sun, Sep 3, 2023, 7:04 PM Dave Taht via Cerowrt-devel <
cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> The qsdk is on openwrt 15.
>
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 9:51 AM Philip Prindeville
> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As we work on the 23.05 release, I was stunned to receive a Mofi
> MOFI4500-4GXeLTE-V3 router with 14.07 installed on it as part of my
> Unlimitedville enrollment.
> >
> > I thought, "wow, this must have been sitting in a warehouse a while!
> I'd better update it."  So I went to the company's support site, grabbed
> the latest image, flashed it, rebooted and... still running 14.07.
> >
> > For those of you too young to remember, Barrier Breaker was released
> 10/2014 and included the 3.10.14 kernel (released 6/2013).
> >
> > How is this not cyber security malpractice?  A firewall is your first
> line of defense against cyber attacks.  If your firewall has long known,
> well documented vulnerabilities and exploits, you might as well not have a
> firewall at all.
> >
> > I wrote them asking why there wasn't a more recent, more secure release
> of the firewall firmware and this was their response:
> >
> >
> > > Dear Philip,
> > > You dint seem to know what you are talking about and should leave
> software to Profesionals like us and relax
> >
> >
> > I hope that most of the companies that use our software are more
> diligent, and don't incur repetitional damage to our efforts by continuing
> to ship EOL firmware.
> >
> > I get that not every company has kernel developers in-house, and
> frankly, providing an updated kernel release for their SoC is the
> manufacturer's responsibility, and MediaTek has not been responsive in this
> respect (for the longest time they were shipping a 2.6.36 SDK!).  Some of
> the larger vendors (TPLink, ActionTec, Linksys, DLink, Netgear, et al) or
> their ODM partners have the option to hold their feet to the fire and make
> orders contingent on updated SDK's...  I doubt that Mofi does the sort of
> volume that gives them any leverage.
> >
> > But I regress.
> >
> > Class Action suits are becoming more prevalent with computer and
> networking equipment manufacturers, as the public becomes aware of the
> increasing cyber security threats as well as manufacturers' implied
> responsibility to address vulnerabilities in a timely fashion as they
> become aware of them.
> >
> > I'm calling this out because I honestly hope it's the far outlier in our
> ecosystem, and not the rule.
> >
> > Sadly,
> >
> > -Philip
> >
> >
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>
>
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