Thursday, June 3, 2004

Linksys routers open to sniffing

Security portal SecuriTeam published an exploit that could allow hackers and other nasty people to remotely sniff traffic 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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