Check your Netgear router model for security vulnerability
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/30/ ... _patching/
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting most Netgear routers was discovered in June, and is now being exploited in the wild.
Netgear has issued firmware updates for its current models (make sure yours is patched up to date!), but they have also said that many older models will not be patched - list in the article.
It's the classic buffer overflow again - need you even ask? Decades of software developers have been careless about guarding against buffer overflows in almost every software product in existence. Will they ever get it? Picture an episode of the Simpsons where Homer doesn't realize that his beer glass is too small to contain the contents of the beer can and keeps overflowing his beer onto the floor, resulting in a "Doh!" every time. Repeat on loop 10,000 times...
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting most Netgear routers was discovered in June, and is now being exploited in the wild.
Netgear has issued firmware updates for its current models (make sure yours is patched up to date!), but they have also said that many older models will not be patched - list in the article.
It's the classic buffer overflow again - need you even ask? Decades of software developers have been careless about guarding against buffer overflows in almost every software product in existence. Will they ever get it? Picture an episode of the Simpsons where Homer doesn't realize that his beer glass is too small to contain the contents of the beer can and keeps overflowing his beer onto the floor, resulting in a "Doh!" every time. Repeat on loop 10,000 times...
. PoC = Proof of Concept. 