Would DD-WRT or one of the others close a backdoor found in a router?

[Edward78]

So I just found this & figured I ask.

 

[SMN]

Why dont you try and let us know?

 

[Rroff]

That question is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string.

 

[JonJ678]

users are advised to disable WAN-port access to the administrative interfaces of affected products

Well, duh.

DD-WRT or the others are likely to have shut that door, and may have opened others.

 

[Anon-e-mouse]

When this was discussed on TechSNAP http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/44832/sodding-d-link-backdoor-techsnap-132/, it was mentioned that there will be an updated firmware released shortly. In the short term disabling net access to the admin tool is only a work around.

 

[Audigex]

Disabling access to the admin tool is the workaround.

DD-WRT would almost certainly not have the same vulnerability - it's a firmware issue, not a hardware one. Using DD-WRT firmware should fix it as a different, separately developed firmware for the same hardware would be hugely unlikely to make the same basic mistake.

It's like if you wrote Microsoft Word now, you'd be very unlikely to write the same bugs into your software as Microsoft have in theirs.

 

[paradigm]

Disabling access to the admin tool is the workaround.

Not really a workaround, more standard practice (who leaves management open to WAN anyway?

DD-WRT would almost certainly not have the same vulnerability - it's a firmware issue, not a hardware one. Using DD-WRT firmware should fix it as a different, separately developed firmware for the same hardware would be hugely unlikely to make the same basic mistake.

It's like if you wrote Microsoft Word now, you'd be very unlikely to write the same bugs into your software as Microsoft have in theirs.

Only if you knew those bugs were there in the first place.