Patch now! Netgear fixes serious smart switch vulnerabilities

In a security advisory, NetGear has announced it has fixed three vulnerabilities in firmware updates for several network devices. Most of the affected products are smart switches, some of them with cloud management capabilities that allow for configuring and monitoring them over the web. One of t...

The vulnerability of the Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol (NSDP) implementation in the microprogrammable switching devices NETGEAR ProSAFE Plus JGS516PE and ProSAFE Plus GS116Ev2 allows a perpetrator to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol NSDP implementation of the NETGEAR ProSAFE Plus JGS516PE and ProSAFE Plus GS116Ev2 microprogrammable switching devices is related to the use of a hashing algorithm that contains vulnerabilities. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a...