It seems that the popular next generation games console the Nintendo Wii has garnered some attention from the IT Security community, nope they are not all playing Sonic. They have been picking holes in the software that makes up the Wii.

Don’t worry just yet we’re not going to see thousands of Zombie Wii forming botnets. It seems that a vulnerability that was found in the web browser Opera a few months ago and promptly patched can affect the browser included in the Wii.

Now it seems that Opera for the Wii (aka ‘Internet Channel’) that was posted originally to the store was a pre-patch version of Opera. So anyone that downloaded the original Internet Channel for the Wii will have installed a vulnerable version of Opera.

Now although the current available exploits only crash your poor Wii, it is possible that someone could turn this into something more than a DoS but remote code execution exploit. But luckily the window of opportunity is closing for this vulnerability, on April 12 a patched version of opera was added to the store for new Wii owners to download and existing owners to update from.

So we’d recommend that existing Wii owners look to upgrade the installed version of the Internet Channel they have on their console.

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