CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-48176 — Netgear R7000P Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Netgear routers R7000P before v1.3.3.154, R6900P before v1.3.3.154, R7960P before v1.4.4.94, and R8000P before v1.4.4.94 were discovered to contain a pre-authentication stack overflow.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (3.1)
Published
2023-01-31
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Affected products

  • netgear / r7000p_firmware
  • netgear / r6900p_firmware
  • netgear / r7960p_firmware
  • netgear / r8000p_firmware
  • netgear / mr60_firmware
  • netgear / ms60_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption

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Check exposure

  • Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
  • Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
  • Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
  • Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
  • Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.

Authoritative sources

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