A vulnerability was found in Netgear R6900 1.0.1.26_1.0.20. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file upgrade_check.cgi of the component HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument Content-Length leads to buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://vuldb.com/?id.286873 | vdb entry technical description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.286873 | signature permissions required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.451858 | third party advisory |
| https://github.com/upload000/Hub/blob/main/IOT/Netgear_R6900.md | exploit |
| https://www.netgear.com/about/eos/ | related |
| https://www.netgear.com/ | product |