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ircd-ratbox 3.0.1 released

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Yesterday, the ircd-ratbox project announced the release of their latest testing version of their IRCd.

Now being available as version 3.0.1, it still clearly is labeled as an early release and better not being used in a production environment.

NOTE: Whilst every effort has been made to make sure this code is usable, it
is still not classified as a stable release.  You assume full
responsibility for running this on a production network.

The  changelog is rather short but there seem to be a few big changes included like reenabling SSL and ziplinks

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Possible DoS Found in IRCd-Ratbox

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

A possible DoS has been found in IRCd-Ratbox. This IRCd is in use on EFNet and other smaller networks.

The discovery was announced on the Ratbox mailinglist by Lee H: “We have recently uncovered a potential DoS in ircd-ratbox that could result in resource starvation of the CPU.”

The bug dates back to very early version of Ratbox, which makes it a vulnerability that is presence in all flavors of the IRCd in use.

“We have now released ircd-ratbox-2.2.6, it is recommended that everybody upgrades — the attack is fairly easy to abuse.  Details follow in the next email”, Lee ends. Since then, Lee retracted to give more details about the exploit to prevent malicious users causing havoc.

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