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At Least 700,000 Routers Given To Customers By ISPs Are Vulnerable To Hacking

Posted by Soulskill on from the seeds-of-a-class-action dept.

itwbennett writes: More than 700,000 ADSL routers provided to customers by ISPs around the world contain serious flaws that allow remote hackers to take control of them. Most of the routers have a 'directory traversal' flaw in a firmware component called webproc.cgi that allows hackers to extract sensitive configuration data, including administrative credentials. The flaw isn't new and has been reported by multiple researchers since 2011 in various router models.

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  1. Re:Run your own equipment by ckatko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You seem to be under the assumption that your hardware, and your compiler are incapable of being attack vectors.

    http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ke...