full-disclosure - Re: Goatse Security EMERGENCY RELEASE - RAMPANT VULNERABILITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:31:34 -0500
From: Laurelai Storm <laurelai@...echan.org>
To: DiKKy Heartiez <dikkyheartiez@...mail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Goatse Security EMERGENCY RELEASE - RAMPANT
 VULNERABILITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE

this vulnerability is very old

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, DiKKy Heartiez
<dikkyheartiez@...mail.com>wrote:

>  We've just stumbled upon a few dangerous exploits which can be used in
> conjunction to wreak havoc in online chatrooms, which could potentially be
> very dangerous.
>
>
> Home routers running VXWorks, such as the Netgear 614, 624, and Linksys
> WRT54G v5 routers, 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.
>
>
> Using such a string as
>
>
> \001DCC SEND "hello.jpg" 0 0 0
>
>
> would exploit this flaw.
>
>
> This exploit is exacerbated by a buffer overflow vulnerability in mIRC
> version 6.12 whereby using filename longer than fourteen characters will
> cause the client to crash.  By combining these two flaws, we get
>
>
> \001DCC SEND "loljewsdidwtc.jpg" 0 0 0
>
>
> which will cause a Denial of Service condition in a minimum of four
> products.
>
>
> This would be bad enough, however users of Norton's Personal Firewall
> product are faced with even more risk.  Symantec generally makes the BEST
> security products on the market and we are very surprised that this slipped
> through.  Norton's Personal Firewall will drop a connection if it detects
> the string "startkeylogger" or "stopkeylogger" in incoming data.  This is to
> prevent the spread of the new Spybot worm but also has unintended
> consequences.  By using the string
>
>
> \001DCC SEND "startkeylogger" 0 0 0
>
>
> a Denial of Service condition is created on multiple hardware routers and
> multiple software products.  Such exploits have been seen running rampant in
> channels such as #lulzsec, #anonops, #ix, #nanog, #2600, and #phonelosers.
>  Please be wary of any chats from unknown parties, and keep your software up
> to date.  We will update you more as this situation unfolds.
>
>
>
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