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EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability

Posted by Unknown on from the blame-c dept.

An anonymous reader writes "EFnet member Fionn 'Fudge' Kelleher reported several vulnerabilities in the IRC daemons charybdis, ircd-ratbox, and other derivative IRCds. The vulnerability was subsequently used to bring down large portions of the EFnet IRC network." By crafting a particular message, you can cause the IRC daemon to call strlen(NULL) and game over, core dumped.

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  1. Sigh... by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    1998 called and want their attack vector back.

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    1. Re:Sigh... by skovnymfe · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's retro cracking. Old is the new new, y'know?

  2. Great! by lemur3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can finally get that nickname I have been wanting since 1999 !!

  3. Re:EFnet is already paralyzed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google wave?

  4. Re:EFnet is already paralyzed by Vermyndax · · Score: 5, Funny

    While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.

  5. Re:Theoretical way to get size of C string by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can these solutions be used in a Hosts file?

  6. Re:What the EF? by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Funny

    EFnet is some crappy IRC network people go to for help until they find out about freenode.

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