Netgear 614 and 624 routers, possibly running VXWorks, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malformed DCC SEND…

Description

Netgear 614 and 624 routers, possibly running VXWorks, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malformed DCC SEND string to an IRC channel, which causes an IRC connection reset, possibly related to the masquerading code for NAT environments, and as demonstrated via (1) a DCC SEND with a single long argument, or (2) a DCC SEND with IP, port, and filesize arguments with a 0 value.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• multiple-vendor-dccsend-dos(25230) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20060306 Re: linksys router + irc DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.hm2k.org/news/1141413208.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20060304 Various router DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20060303 linksys router + irc DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 16954 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20060306 RE: linksys router + irc DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 16:56 UTC.