Re: BitchX exploit possibly waiting to happen, certain DoS

[drow () FALSE ORG (Daniel Jacobowitz)]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:19:50AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> With regards to the wu-ftpd exploits, it has come to my attention that
> BitchX (all recent versions), a very popular irc client amongst the sysadmin
> community contains code similar to wu-ftpd 2.6:
>
>                 logmsg(LOG_INVITE, from, 0, invite_channel);
>
> Where the last argument is a printf() style format argument. A patch is
> floating around which changes this line to:
>
>                 logmsg(LOG_INVITE, from, 0, "%s", invite_channel);
>
> See also http://bitchx.vda.nl/

A patch has been available on ftp.bitchx.org for about two days now:

ftp://ftp.bitchx.org/pub/BitchX/source/1.0c16-format.patch
ftp://ftp.bitchx.org/pub/BitchX/source/75p3-format.patch

Fixed packages for Debian 2.2 are also available, and fixed packages
for Debian 2.1 are forthcoming.

Dan

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|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan () debian org         |  |       dmj+ () andrew cmu edu      |
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