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Jeremy Allison — Sam (Slashdot reader #8,157) is a Distinguished Engineer at Rocky Linux creator CIQ. This week he published a blog post responding to promises of Linux distros "carefully selecting only the most polished and pristine open source patches from the raw upstream open source Linu...

Introduction I noticed that the network subsystem was already being fuzzed extensively by syzkaller, but that subsystems like Bluetooth were less well covered. In general, research on the Bluetooth host attack surface seemed to be quite limited – with most public vulnerabilities in Bluetooth only affecting the firmware or the specification itself, and only allowing attackers to eavesdrop and/or manipulate information. But what if attackers could take full control over devices? The most promin...