Fortinet Discovers Netgear USB Device CGI Handler Stack Buffer Overflow

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered post authentication stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Netgear routers.

Netgear is a global computer networking company based in San Jose, California, in the United States. It produces networking hardware for consumers, businesses, and service providers

The routers suffer stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that occurs when arbitrary USB device name is sent to CGI handler. Remote code execution can be achieved upon successful exploitation.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Netgear.USB.CGI.Buffer.Overflow
Released Jul 02, 2018

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Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Netgear on 29, May 2018

Netgear confirmed the vulnerability on 30, May 2018

Netgear released patch for the vulnerability on 04, September 2019

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Wayne Low of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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