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Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes

Posted by timothy on from the insecurity-through-non-obscurity dept.

KrispyBytes writes "Windows XP SP3 has been named as the culprit causing home routers to go into a crash and reboot cycle. One router maker has released firmware updates to fix the problem, but has not yet revealed what is actually different about XP SP3's networking stack or UPnP behaviour that causes the problem. Router maker Billion Managing Director Raaj Menon said "as Microsoft plans to make Windows XP SP3 an automatic upgrade this month, the number of affected routers may increase significantly.""

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  1. Re:Works for me, and probably for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In my experience this also affects every Linksys model I had come in contact with that are flashed with the stock firmware or DD-WRT (any version).

  2. Re:Not surprising by postbigbang · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are a number of possible circumstances where a router might try to respond, then tie up resources. Example, if let's say that a routing, ARP, or layer-2 protocol arises inappropriately with distinct, yet smelly malformed garbage as a payload. Or a BGP dump sequence is done that confuses the router or blows its delicate cache tables. Spanning tree malformations can do it. Ooops. Better not say more. Isn't IOS invulnerable or something?

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  3. Is there a way to rate an article as utter crap? by mrmeval · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It would be nice to watch misleading, uninformative crap be forced off the main page.

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