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Riley78
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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's avatar
    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.

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Blanca_O
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 05, 2018

Hi Riley78, 

 

I got a confirmation from Engineering team that R6900 is not affected by the vulnerability. 

 

Regards,

 

Blanca 
Community Team

Riley78's avatar
Riley78
Guide
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.