{"id":7863,"date":"2002-11-07T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2002-11-07T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T11:02:58","slug":"linksys-cabledsl-router-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7863","title":{"rendered":"Linksys Cable\/DSL router vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/Products\/groupimgwhite\/befsr41.jpg\" align=left>A security company called iDefense has <a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusiness.yahoo.com\/business_technology\/technology_news\/software_news.html?s=articles\/20021104\/linksys_vulnera\">announced<\/a> that they have discovered a vulnerability in the Linksys BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable\/DSL router. The vulnerability allows someone to crash the router by simply typing a URL into their browser. If remote management is turned on, then this can be done from anywhere on the internet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/download\/firmware.asp\">Upgrading the firmware<\/a> to a version newer than 1.42.7 will fix the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security company called iDefense has announced that they have discovered a vulnerability in the Linksys BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable\/DSL router. The vulnerability allows someone to crash the router by simply typing a URL into their browser. If remote management is turned on, then this can be done from anywhere on the internet. Upgrading the firmware &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linksys Cable\/DSL router vulnerability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}