Hey, Same guy that "released" the norton start/stopkeylogger .. http://www.hm2k.org/news/1141413208.html the comments provide some more info On 4 Mar 2006 05:42:11 -0000, ryanmeyer14@xxxxxxxxxxxx<ryanmeyer14@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> It appears that various routers are prone to an IRC-only DoS attack. Particularly Netgear and Linksys routers have been shown vulnerable.>> If a client behind one of the vulnerable routers connects to an IRC server on port 6667 (and only 6667, does not DoS with other ports) and a user posts the following string in either a channel, private message, ctcp, notice, etc.. the router will drop the connection. The string is as follows:>> DCC SEND anylongrandomstringhere>> It is most commonly being seen as>> DCC SEND "string" 0 0 0>> but that appears to be unneccessary. The string does need to be 15+ chars in length.>> Further, it appears the routers that are vulnerable to this are running vxworks as their embedded OS. Older linux Linksys routers appear to be immune.>
