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Mar 26, 2018

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Avast Vulnerability Catalogue ID CVE-2017-14491 for the Nighthawk R7000 ac1900 dualband wifi router

I have got this report from Avast and Bitdefender after scanning my network and i have the latest firmware for my router. Any ideas if Netgear is working on a firmware update f...

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schumaku
Aug 13, 2018
For the subject CVE-2017-14491 plus a few more items to address should be 2.78 or higher. Check http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG

JamesGL

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Apr 03, 2018

Hi Megarock,

You can click on submit report on the link below.

https://bugcrowd.com/netgear

schumaku

Guru - Experienced User

Apr 03, 2018

JamesGLwrote:
You can click on submit report on the link below.

Can't be Netgear customers having to file well known and published vulnerabilities every reasonable commercial, (even free!) vulnerability test tools does complain (some for a longer time). Something is badly wrong in the way these products firmware is audited, regularly reviewed, and security updated.