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Moogie
06-05-2004, 09:30 AM
<table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><b>Cisco hasn't touched Linksys code in near a year</b><br><br>By Fernando Cassia: Wednesday 02 June 2004, 07:37<br><br>FOLKS AT security portal SecuriTeam published on May 17 an exploit that could allow hackers and other nasty people to remotely sniff traffic passing through the router, and also crash the device. <br><br>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. This exploit is currently listed at position #3 in the SecuriTeam.com front page, so expect lots of script kiddies to be playing with it as we write (and you read) this. <br></td></tr></table><br><br>Read more <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16298"><u>HERE.</u></a><br><br>

Brucifer
06-11-2004, 11:15 AM
Just wondering if there has been any more on this... if so many people are using these buggers and the resultant security implications, you'd think the news would be awash in more info...

IronBits
06-11-2004, 02:40 PM
It's been fixed/patched, from what I read...
Go get yer patches :D