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Mar 15, 2018

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R6900: Security Issue found by Avast

I updated my Avast free antivirus to the current build and ran the Wi-Fi inspector. I had ran it recently and it found no problems. But now it reads: "Your router or Wi-Fi hotspot is vulnerable to n...

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Riley78
Oct 20, 2018
So with the just released firmware version 1.0.2.4, dnsmasq is finally updated to 2.78.

It only took one full year.

Riley78

Guide

Mar 15, 2018

How do I alert Netgear, or will someone else take care of it?

JamesGL

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Mar 15, 2018

Hi Riley78,

Thank you bringing this up. Please check the link below to report vulnerabilities.

https://www.netgear.com/about/security/default.aspx

Riley78
Guide
May 29, 2018
James, could you or one of the mods please either submit the issue or find out if Netgear is working on it? I did not submit a report. I found the website confusing.

My R6900 with latest firmware runs "dnsmasq-2.15-OpenDNS-1"

Thanks

This is what they need to know: CVE-2017-14491

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/10/behind-masq-yet-more-dns-and-dhcp.html

Avast sends me to: https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/hns/cve-2017-14491.html