Thursday, June 3, 2004

Linksys routers open to sniffing

Security portal SecuriTeam published an exploit that could allow hackers and other nasty people to <A HREF="http://theinquirer.net/?article=16298">remotely sniff traffic</A> passing through the router, and also crash the device. The article says it all comes down to a "memory leak", causing a flaw in the way the Linksys routers' DHCP server returns BOOTP protocol packets.

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