High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 6, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-6989
CVE-2019-6989
Description
TP-Link TL-WR940N is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ipAddrDispose function. By sending specially crafted ICMP echo request packets, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
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Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr940n_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr941nd_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- TP-Link/TL-WR940Ndescription
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