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The service was used maliciously to crash [[Microsoft]] [[Name server|___domain name servers]] (DNS) running [[Windows NT 4.0]] by piping the arbitrary characters straight into the DNS server listening port (<code>telnet ntbox 19 | telnet ntbox 53</code>).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169461|title=Access Violation in Dns.exe Caused by Malicious Telnet Attack|date=2006-11-01|publisher=Support.microsoft.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819172557/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169461|url-status=live|accessdate=2009-05-31|archive-date=2014-08-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.itprotoday.com/security/ms-dns-server-subject-denial-service-attack|title=MS DNS Server subject to Denial of Service Attack|date=1997-05-27|work=IT Pro|access-date=2018-02-05}}</ref> However, the attack may have been a symptom of improper buffer management on the part of Microsoft's DNS service and not directly related to the CHARGEN service.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
UDP CHARGEN is commonly used in denial-of-service attacks. By using a fake source address the attacker can send bounce traffic off a UDP CHARGEN application to the victim. UDP CHARGEN sends 200 to 1,000 times more data than it receives, depending upon the implementation. This "traffic multiplication" is also attractive to an attacker because it obscures the attacker's IP address from the victim.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
CHARGEN was widely implemented on network-connected printers. As printer firmware was rarely updated on older models before CHARGEN and other security concerns were known, there may still be many network-connected printers which implement the protocol. Where these are visible to the Internet, they are invariably misused as denial of service vectors. Potential attackers often scan networks looking for UDP port 19 CHARGEN sources.
So notorious is the availability of CHARGEN in [[Printer (computing)|printers]] that some [[Denial-of-service attack|distributed denial of service]] trojans now use UDP port 19 for their attack traffic. The supposed aim is to throw investigators off the track; to have them looking for old printers rather than subverted computers.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
==See also==
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