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Re: Killing ircds via DNS

From: Chris Mason <chris () ICKLE FRENZY ORG UK>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:20:53 +0000

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)

Current thread:

Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 07)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS van der Kooij, Hugo (Dec 08)
  - Re: Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 11)
  - Re: Killing ircds via DNS Adam J Herscher (Dec 11)
  - Re: Killing ircds via DNS Robert Feldbauer (Dec 11)
- Re: Killing ircds via DNS Piotr Kucharski (Dec 11)
  - Re: Killing ircds via DNS David Luyer (Dec 12)
    - Re: Killing ircds via DNS Darren Reed (Dec 13)
  - Re: Killing ircds via DNS Chris Mason (Dec 12)
    - Security Advisory: Subscribe Me Lite 1.0 - 2.0 Unix or 1.0 - 2.0 NT and below. Tom Pickles (Dec 13)
    - Re: Killing ircds via DNS Sean Kelly (Dec 13)