HydraIRC releases version 0.3.165 and opens access to its sourcecode
Saturday, January 24th, 2009On monday HydraIRC, calling itself “the professional client”, posted an announcement of a new version that has been released back in December on its website.
The announcement mentions a good reason for the update – security issues that also have plagued other clients as well, again in the form of malicious irc:// URLs which can lead to a crash of the client. The changelog calls the vulnerability a “remote DoS exploit” that is present in the “parsing code for long irc:// urls” but only when “hydrairc’s url handler is enabled.”
