Re: remote crash BitchX 1.0c16

[mndfreeze () CRACKROCK NET (Moniz, Troy)]

This also affects bitchx 75p3

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Colten Edwards wrote:

> There's a small bug in the latest BitchX in which a nasty user can invite
> you to a channel with a %s in it, causing the client to coredump. As alot
> of channels/users on irc use the client, I felt I should post a notice
> about this problem. A small patch is available on
> www.bitchx.com/downloads.html as well as on
>    ftp.bitchx.com/pub/BitchX/1.0c16.patch
>
> This is a classic case of printf(variable); where variable contains
> formatting chars. I doubt very much this would lead to a root exploit,
> anyone running any irc client as root, should be examined professionally.
>
> I wish to thank the person who discovered this and reported it to #bitchx
> on efnet, as well as the many emails I received on this subject. We had a
> patch available for this before it widely known..
>
>
>                                               Colten Edwards
>                                               panasync@efnet