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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 17, 2018· Updated Sep 17, 2024

CVE-2018-3954

CVE-2018-3954

Description

Devices in the Linksys ESeries line of routers (Linksys E1200 Firmware Version 2.0.09 and Linksys E2500 Firmware Version 3.0.04) are susceptible to OS command injection vulnerabilities due to improper filtering of data passed to and retrieved from NVRAMData entered into the 'Router Name' input field through the web portal is submitted to apply.cgi as the value to the 'machine_name' POST parameter. When the 'preinit' binary receives the SIGHUP signal it enters a code path that calls a function named 'set_host_domain_name' from its libshared.so shared object.

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Affected products

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  • Linksys/E1200llm-fuzzy
    Range: =2.0.09
  • Linksys/E2500llm-fuzzy
    Range: =3.0.04
  • Linksys/ESeriescpe-rescue2 versions
    Firmware Version 2.0.09+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: Firmware Version 2.0.09
    • (no CPE)range: Firmware Version 3.0.04

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