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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.

2 of 156 comments (clear)

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

    1998 called and want their attack vector back.

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    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  2. Re:EFnet is already paralyzed by Vermyndax · · Score: 5, Funny

    While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.