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VMHP
Sep 29, 2021Follower
Netgear ProSafe GS728TPv2 Switch Etherleak issue flagged by Nessus scan
Hi
We ran a Nessus scan for a customer. One of the flagged vulnerabilities was for:
Multiple Ethernet Driver Frame Padding Information Disclosure (Etherleak):
Description: The remote host uses a network device driver that pads ethernet frames with data which vary from one packet to another, likely taken from kernel memory, system memory allocated to the device driver, or a hardware buffer on its network interface card. Known as 'Etherleak', this information disclosure vulnerability may allow an attacker to collect sensitive information from the affected host provided he is on the same physical subnet as that host. Solution: Contact the network device driver's vendor for a fix.
This issue comes from 2003.
The switch has recently been updated with the latest firmware (v6.0.8.2).
Any idea how we would solve this issue please? Anyone know why this is being flagged?
Thanks for your help
1 Reply
Please visit and post about this over in the Managed Switch forum:
Thank you.