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VAR-201712-0853

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-20 23:22

MikroTik RouterBOARD v6.39.2 and v6.40.5 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service by connecting to TCP port 53 and sending data that begins with many '\0' characters, possibly related to DNS. MikroTik RouterBOARD Contains an input validation vulnerability.Service operation interruption (DoS) There is a possibility of being put into a state. MikroTik RouterBoard is a router management panel of MikroTik Company of Latvia.

There are security vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterBOARD version 6.39.2 and 6.40.5

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CVE-2017-17537 (GCVE-0-2017-17537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-13 16:00 – Updated: 2026-09-16 20:56

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43200/	exploit
https://packetstorm.news/files/id/145382

Date Public

2017-12-13 00:00

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