Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-18697

Description

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. This affects R7800 before 1.0.2.40 and R9000 before 1.0.2.52.

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Affected products

Netgear/R7800 Firmware
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r7800_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <1.0.2.40
Netgear/R9000 Firmware
cpe:2.3:o:netgear:r9000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <1.0.2.52
NETGEAR/devicesdescription
Netgear/R9000llm-fuzzy
Range: <1.0.2.52
Netgear/R7800llm-fuzzy
Range: <1.0.2.40

Patches

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References

kb.netgear.com/000053205/Security-Advisory-for-Post-Authentication-Stack-Overflow-on-Some-Routers-PSV-2017-2628nvdVendor Advisory

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