D-Link Says Routers Include Built-In Windows Security Solution

📅 December 24, 2001 - D-Link (dlink.com), a designer, developer and manufacturer of firewalls and routers, announced that D-Link firewalls already protect users from people trying to break in through the recently announced critical security breaches in Windows. The breaches have been described by Microsoft as an unchecked buffer or buffer overrun vulnerability and a denial of services vulnerability.

The first vulnerability only affects the Windows XP UPnP implementation, andcould enable an attacker to gain complete control over an affected system.The second vulnerability affects UPnP implementations in Windows XP, Windows98, Windows 98SE, and Windows ME, and could enable an attacker to eitherprevent an affected system from providing useful service or use multipleusers' systems in a distributed denial of service attack against a singletarget. D-Link says its firewall and routers and other UPnP capable devicesare not directly susceptible to this Operating System vulnerability.
"We are the answer to solve this and future port problems," said Steven Joe,president of D-Link. "Our routers protect systems with this vulnerability byblocking the ports from unwanted intruders."
Microsoft customers with UPnP enabled are at risk right now only if they donot have a firewall. All D-Link routers provide protection on port numbers1900 and 5000 that the hackers have been using to break into and gaincontrol of PCs.