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