My home network uses a small 4 port broadband Dlink router (704p) The firmware was updated a week ago. The following malformed URL's cause odd behavior in the router. Pointing your browser (like most routers) to the gateways internal IP address you get a web interface for administering your router. http://192.168.0.1/syslog.htm? D=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA This URL caused the router to do a DNS query on: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA@xxxx.xx.comcast.net "@xxxx.xx.comcast.net" is the trailing end of my hostname (i replaced the real trailing host name with x's as to not give up my location! heh) Subsequently there was a DNS response "no such name" Enough of these malformed URLS causes the DNS server to DoS the router for a short time because a DNS response packet is much larger then a DNS query packet. This URL also caused an error in the routers log file page, the URL made the page look odd. This router uses CSS to display its tabs and log file (syslog.htm). Some of the HTML was visible within the CSS that were now repeating across the page. I took a screen shot and uploaded it to my webspace. http://www.securityindex.net/router.JPG --- http://192.168.0.1/syslog.htm? D=......................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ........................................................................... .................... This malformed URL caused the router to stop responding. Requesting this url over and over will eventually render the router useless until reset. You can still access the internet after sending this url once but the routers configuration page does not respond until you reset the router. --> i sent an email to dlink containing a copy of this post. Thanx --> --chris www.securityindex.net -apex security group-
