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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...
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
NETGEAR should get off this habit of using antique versions of their important toolchains and upgrade them to modern versions. dnsmasq version on NETGEAR routers is 2.39, which was released in 2007, which is 11 YEARS AGO, and widely known to have various (security) issues. wide-dhcpv6 is NO LONGER DEVELOPED FOR YEARS and is not up to current IPv6, sometimes not working at all with some configurations - I am living proof of that as I have Linux systems that don't work well with its dhcp6s server
But since this is NETGEAR and it does what it wants, and it took it YEARS to finally stop blocking ICMPv6 packets and this only on certain router models/firmware, I have very little hopes that any change will come. They're thick-headed-think-they-know-better while the competition is miles ahead (looks at ASUS)
A real, real SHAME. Because I happen to like NETGEAR hardware
Its still in the firmware ? why..?
Last login: Sat Jul 14 11:08:26 on console
iMac-van-ED:~ Ed$ nslookup -type=txt -class=chaos version.bind 192.168.1.1
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53
version.bind text = "dnsmasq-2.39"
- Exactely.....Netgear WTF!!!! TAKE CARE OF THIS NOW
I am happy to report that Netgear has fixed this with the latest update applied to my router. I updated about 5 days ago (regular update push from Netgear, not by manual download method) to version V1.0.9.34_10.2.36 and now Avast does not complain about dnsmasq and nslookup reports "dnsmasq-2.78".
THANK YOU Netgear for taking care of this!!! I am sure you are tackling these issues as quickly as resources allow! Hang in there folks, help is on the way!!!
Cheers,
Brian
Can anyone tell if this is fixed on Netgear R8000P?