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Re: DCC HiJacking patch for BitchX 75p1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Jay Meltzer)
Thu Dec 24 19:47:42 1998

Date: 	Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:58:12 -0500
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: David Jay Meltzer <davem+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
X-To:         nailtbt@tin.it
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

> Hi all,
>    as recently discovered, with a simple port scan you can hijack some
> of the BitchX dcc connections. This due to the port assigning on the
> requesting client.

Recently?  These issues were published as "IRC DCC Protocol Security Holes"
from FEH Staff in "FEH Issue #4" released 12/26/95.

-Dave

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          David J. Meltzer
           davem+@cmu.edu
     Carnegie Mellon University
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