EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
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.
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
1998 called and want their attack vector back.
Re:Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Now I can finally get that nickname I have been wanting since 1999 !!
Re:EFnet is already paralyzed (Score:2, Funny)
Google wave?
Re:EFnet is already paralyzed (Score:5, Funny)
While you're at it, please redesign SMTP.
Re:Theoretical way to get size of C string (Score:2, Funny)
Can these solutions be used in a Hosts file?
Re:What the EF? (Score:2, Funny)
EFnet is some crappy IRC network people go to for help until they find out about freenode.