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Zero-day vulnerability discovered in TP-Link routers (www.techzine.eu)

submitted 2 days ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago

"[It] affects several popular models, including the Archer AX10 and AX1500.

[...] input from external messages is used directly to calculate a buffer length [...] without any boundary checks. [...] A payload of 4096 bytes [...] confirmed that the program counter can be overwritten. This means that complete system compromise with root privileges is achievable."

Sounds very fixable