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Re: Killing ircds via DNS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Mason)
Mon Dec 11 15:06:40 2000

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Date:         Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:20:53 +0000
Reply-To: Chris Mason <chris@ICKLE.FRENZY.ORG.UK>
From: Chris Mason <chris@ICKLE.FRENZY.ORG.UK>
X-To:         Piotr Kucharski <chopin@SGH.WAW.PL>
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I thought I might mention that all versions of cyclone are vunerable to
this bug as well.

Chris


On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Piotr Kucharski wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:59:51 +0100
> From: Piotr Kucharski <chopin@SGH.WAW.PL>
> To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Re: Killing ircds via DNS
>
> 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)
>

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