CVE-2006-1068: NETGEAR Router

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• NETGEAR NETGEAR Router: any version

Published 2006-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.