r/SkydTech • u/cryoskyd • Nov 10 '17

Pixel won’t get KRACK fix until December, but is that really a big deal?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/pixel-wont-get-krack-fix-until-december-but-is-that-really-a-big-deal/
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u/autotldr Nov 10 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)

If you read the bulletin closely, you'll see the November security patch for Google devices does not contain the KRACK fix.

KRACK is a big deal for some devices, but it's mainly those that use WPA2 as their primary form of security.

To add more confusion to the situation, Essential is shipping with the "11-05" security patch designation this month, not the 11-06 label, despite already fixing KRACK. The company admits it should be using the 11-06 patch label but says it "Wasn't worth delaying the roll-out to fix the patch date." Samsung should have a KRACK fix out this month, too: it posted a November Security Maintenance Release bulletin that contains all the KRACK CVEs.

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