Vulnerability In Linksys Cable/DSL Router 262
ispcay writes "Yahoo has published an article on a Linksys vulnerability. An easily exploitable software vulnerability in a common home networking router by Linksys Group could expose thousands of home users to denial of service attacks, according to a security advisory issued by iDefense, a software security company." The article's kinda sparse on details, but does mention that the vulnerability is fixed in the latest firmware release. Upgrade 'em if ya got 'em!
Simple fix, not hard (Score:5, Insightful)
No firmware flashing needed.
Hmmmm.... (Score:4, Insightful)
And the point is what? (Score:4, Insightful)
Big deal, (Score:3, Insightful)
Firstly, my router (SMC, not linksys) crashes on it's own every now and then.
It's consumer grade gear, people are probably used to turning them off and back on again anyway. And it's not like the main computer is affected.
Secondly, the attack has to originate on the inside network. It's not like the script kiddiz can take out these box en masse by blasting out a load a packets. Once you visit a malicious site - if there even is a real one - you'll soon learn not to go there again.
could be the first in a line of problems (Score:3, Insightful)
This could be a serious problem in the coming future with these small routers/NATers being combined with wireless APs for everyone to use AIM from the couch. Great and all but people wiht these things are probably going to bother even less with security than they do now, thereby introducing a whole host of nastly little attacks.
This should be interesting to watch for.
Actually, this little thing is kinda powerful (Score:5, Insightful)
The BEFSR11 is truly cool. $50 gets you a box that barely draws any power and routes requests quite nicely for 254 machines and functions as a DHCP server to boot. Practically maintenance free. Most of mine already have upgraded firmware, but you can bet that I - and several other admins who oversee non-profit and educational sites - will be busy checking firmware versions for a while.
Re:And the point is what? (Score:2, Insightful)