Update your router: New vulnerability affects millions of routers and connected devices

Information security firm SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab has discovered a security flaw that affects millions of routers and could leave them open to remote hacking.

The vulnerability revolves around NetUSB, which provides network access to USB devices like printers and external hard drives through routers and access points. So, for example, NetUSB lets you have a hard drive plugged into your router to share files across your network–this is a highly touted feature of many routers today.

Unfortunately, there’s a flaw where a hacker can send a long computer name during the connection initiation and create stack buffer overflows. As Betanews explains:

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