After Two Days, Asus Fixed Router-Freezing Glitch

An anonymous reader shared ths report from Ars Technica:
On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that their devices suddenly froze up for no apparent reason and then, upon rebooting repeatedly, stopped working every few minutes as device memory became exhausted.

Two days later, the Taiwan-based hardware maker has finally answered the calls for help. The mass outage, the company said, was the result of 'an error in the configuration of our server settings file.' After fixing the glitch, most users needed to only reboot their devices. In the event that didn't fix the problem, the company's support team advised users to save their current configuration settings and perform a factory reset. The company also apologized...

Asus still hasn't provided details about the configuration error. Various users have offered explanations online that appear to be correct. 'On the 16th, Asus pushed a corrupted definition file for ASD, a built-in security daemon present in a wide range of their routers,' one person wrote. 'As routers automatically updated and fetched the corrupted definition file, they started running out of filesystem space and memory and crashing.'

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