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Last month a new bug have been found in IRCu family IRCd’s which can be exploited leading to a crashing server.

In this post on Milw0rm the bug and exploit is explained. IRCu (<= 2.10.12.12) and many derivatives are affected.

IRC-Junkie asked Slug, who found the bug and described it on Milw0rm, how he found the bug. “Core dump from one of our servers,” Slug starts. “send_user_mode in s_user.c does not check that the argument after a +r mode is present, if it is not than the NULL sentinel may be missed, causing the function to iterate over the boundary of the array.”

“Our development committee is currently testing our new IPv6 IRC server located at ipv6.gamesurge.net. If you have an IPv6 connection you might want to download this patch for Mirc that will allow you to connect to GameSurge via the IPv6 protocol”, the GameSurge website reports.

IPv6 support is one of the new features of ircu2.10.12, the IRC deamon which is also in use on the Undernet network.

A university in New York is going to be working on a program to analyse IRC chat which is being funded by the CIA channeled through the National Science Foundation. This document outlines the project including the sum of money involved which is $157673 USD.

“The aim of this proposal is to develop new techniques for information gathering, analysis and modeling of chatroom communications”, the document explains. What the document did not lined out was that it was the CIA who was behind the funding.

Leland Jameson, NSF programme director said last Wednesday that the two year program will probably not see a new term.