With most firewalls, you have to open a port. They're normally all closed by default. I use pfSense here and previously used openSUSE for my firewall. I have to specifically enable any port I want to use. On 05/09/2017 04:29 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I see nothing to suggest this doesn't impact Linux installs on the affected PCs.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-chip-vulnerability-lets-hackers-easily-re...
"But Embedi warned that any affected internet-facing device with open ports 16992 and 16993 are at risk. "Access to ports 16992/16993 are the only requirement to perform a successful attack," said the Embedi researchers."
The bug is pretty horrendous and gives remote attackers access to the remote console. If you have auto-login enabled it may give the attacker a nice logged in GUI.
Greg -- Greg Freemyer
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