Re: BitchX /ignore bug

[dufresne () WINTERNET COM (Ron DuFresne)]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Thomas Dullien wrote:

> At 05:44 AM 7/5/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > If I read this correctly, this is not an attack perse, but a self
> > annihilation is it not?  and while a bug, not something one can use to
> > take others ofline or server, please correct me if I read this wrong.
>
> Erm...the user you invited will die. And yes, this can be remotely exploited
> to run arbitrary code I guess, too... (depends on whether you can get
> backslashes into channel names...)

seems at least efnet servers allow the required backslashes:

*** Users on #test/one: @^smoke

*** Users on #/test/one: @^smoke

Tis a nasty little mess fer sure,

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

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