Netgear flaw triggers accidental DoS attack

Network hardware maker Netgear has warned its customers of a flaw in some of its router products that has set off an accidental denial-of-service attack on the University of Wisconsin.

http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5068035.html?tag=fd_top

I'm surprised this has only just been reported because it's actually quite old news. Netgear have had a firmware update available on their website for at least a month - I got a RP614v2 for home about a month ago and did the proper thing and checked for firmware updates immediately.

update available from

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101176.asp

warning, if you have the RP614v2 do NOT apply the update for RP614 and vice versa.

Z

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Originally posted here by DeadAddict
Network hardware maker Netgear has warned its customers of a flaw in some of its router products that has set off an accidental denial-of-service attack on the University of Wisconsin.

http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5068035.html?tag=fd_top

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Thank you for the heads up - just checked out my netgear pool & we aren't affected.

Steve

I know that there are some users out there that use routers from netgear and don't even bother checking to see if there is a firmware update. it is sad that they don't thanks DeadAddict for the heads up.