Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in NETGEAR N300 Wireless Router

CVE-2019-5055

Summary

An exploitable issue has been identified in the Host Access Point Daemon (hostapd) of the NETGEAR N300 (WNR2000v5) wireless router. Attackers can disrupt the availability of the service by sending a specifically crafted SOAP request that follows an invalid sequence. This action may lead to a null pointer dereference, ultimately causing the hostapd service to crash. As a result, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated individuals to launch denial-of-service attacks targeting this device.

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