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InspIRCd 1.2.7 stable is out, fixes DoS bugs

The InspIRCd team released version 1.2.7 of their stable branch yesterday which fixes 2 critical bugs that can result in DoS conditions, so an upgrade is advised.

The first crash that has been fixed is triggerable when a remote server has the same name as a local one which possibly crashes the linking IRCd. This bug was squashed by developer danieldg in this commit.

The second bug can lead to a Denial of Service condition due to memory exhaustion which is possible since ban exception masks weren’t limited in length and numbers according to MAXBANS.

This has been rectified by this commit and they are now restricted to 250 characters in length and adhere to the MAXBANS directive.

The download for InspIRCd 1.2.7 can be found here, the whole commit-log can be viewed here.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 5:37 pm and is filed under IRC, IRCd, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “InspIRCd 1.2.7 stable is out, fixes DoS bugs”

  1. Gravatar Nathan Phillip Brink Says:
    April 20th, 2010 at 8:10 pm Quote

    It appears that well-informed opers would be enough to avoid both of these crashes, right?

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