Linksys routers may be open to remote sniffing

Cisco hasn't touched Linksys code in near a year By Fernando Cassia: Wednesday 02 June 2004, 07:37 FOLKS AT security portal SecuriTeam published on May 17 an exploit that could allow hackers and other nasty people to remotely sniff traffic passing through the router, and also crash the device. The article says it all comes down to a "memory leak", causing a flaw in the way the Linksys routers' DHCP server returns BOOTP protocol packets. This exploit is currently listed at position #3 in the SecuriTeam.com front page, so expect lots of script kiddies to be playing with it as we write (and you read) this.

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