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It appears that various routers are prone to an IRC-only DoS attack.
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Particularly Netgear and Linksys routers have been shown vulnerable.
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If a client behind one of the vulnerable routers connects to an IRC server on port 6667
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(and only 6667, does not DoS with other ports) and a user posts the following string
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in either a channel, private message, ctcp, notice, etc.. the router will drop the connection.
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The string is as follows:
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DCC SEND anylongrandomstringhere
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Further, it appears the routers that are vulnerable to this are running vxworks as their
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embedded OS. Older linux Linksys routers appear to be immune.
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# milw0rm.com [2006-03-04] |