Re: IRC Security Loophole

[zitz () infinity ivdev com (Silicon Avatar)]

On Fri, 3 Feb 1995, Lorna Leong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I read somewhere that there is a security loophole in IRC. I don't know 
> anything else about it but I would like to find out more information 
> about this. I heard that information about this IRC loophole can be found 
> by FTP at ftp.cert.org, but I couldn't find anything relevant there.

If you are talking about the "jupe" or "grok" hole.  It was temporary, and
merely hacked version of the client floating around at "trusted" sites.

To my knowledge, these "hacks" have been removed and are no longer a threat
(unless someone is propogating these older clients.)

Simply put, you could "CTCP grok [command]" (CTCP being a method of
communication over IRC) someone, and have that command executed,
unknowingly, off the account.

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