Wednesday, August 09, 2017

The Register: Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future


Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future
The Register

You can trivially DoS Puma 5 and 7-powered boxes, too Intel says the performance issues that have dogged its Puma 6 gigabit broadband modem chipset also affect the Puma 5 and Puma 7 family.… A Chipzilla spokesperson confirmed to The Register on Tuesday that a TCP/UDP latency issue that makes home and business gateways powered by Puma 6 processors trivial to knock offline is also present in the Puma 5 and Puma 7 lines. This means swapping a Puma 6-based box – such as a Virgin Media Super Hub 3 – Read the full story


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