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Title: Major security flaw in Netgear routers
Post by: krissel on December 15, 2016, 10:35:36 PM
http://kb.netgear.com/000036386/CVE-2016-582384
Title: Major security flaw in Netgear routers
Post by: jcarter on December 16, 2016, 07:10:30 AM
Interesting, mine is not one of these listed, but I will keep my eye on this just to make sure.
Thanks
Title: Major security flaw in Netgear routers
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 16, 2016, 09:44:34 PM
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A remote attacker can potentially inject arbitrary commands which are then executed by the system.
Exactly what "system"? I assume they mean an "operating" system, but which one? The routers? The computers? Which computers? dntknw.gif
Title: Major security flaw in Netgear routers
Post by: tacit on December 22, 2016, 10:34:11 PM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 17 2016, 04:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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A remote attacker can potentially inject arbitrary commands which are then executed by the system.
Exactly what "system"? I assume they mean an "operating" system, but which one? The routers? The computers? Which computers? dntknw.gif


In this case, "the system" means the router's operating system, which is probably some flavor of embedded Linux.
Title: Major security flaw in Netgear routers
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 23, 2016, 02:44:46 PM
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In this case, "the system" means the router's operating system,
I assumed that, but 'assuming' can be embarrassing at best and dangerous at worst! laughhard.gif