PT-2019-3734
CVE-2018-15840
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Published
2019-03-29
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Updated
2019-04-02
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.8
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
TP-Link TL-WR840N (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the memory of TP-Link TL-WR840N router firmware. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in a networking outage, by sending fragmented packets. An example of how this can be done is by using the "nmap -f" command.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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