[17993] in bugtraq
Re: Killing ircds via DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piotr Kucharski)
Sun Dec 10 18:02:54 2000
Mail-Followup-To: Piotr Kucharski <chopin@sgh.waw.pl>, BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:59:51 +0100
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From: Piotr Kucharski <chopin@SGH.WAW.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <200012060902.eB692xD09017@typhaon.pacific.net.au>; from
david_luyer@PACIFIC.NET.AU on Wed, Dec 06,
2000 at 08:02:59PM +1100
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:02:59PM +1100, David Luyer wrote:
> It appears some people have discovered a bug in various IRCd's res.c.
IRCnet ircd had this bug fixed on 19 Jun 1997, release 2.9.3 was
clean. As far as we can see, other irc daemons like hybrid, ircu,
bahamut are not affected. The only one we could trace to have it
was old dalnet dreamforge, so it could be all based on it are
vulnerable.
p.
(ircnet ircd maintainer)
