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UnrealIRCd updates their IRCd to 3.2.8.1

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The UnrealIRCd project released a bugfix release of version 3.2.8 and the current release is now 3.2.8.1.

The bugfix became necessary as a crash has been found in the option allow::options::noident.

In a short interview developer nate explains how the crash is being triggered and how to avoid it:

There was an issue in allow::options::noident, where if it was enabled in an allow block that a user could potentially crash a server due to a buffer overflow. As far as we’ve been able to see, there’s no risk of remote code execution as much as it just causing a segfault.  The main ways of resolving it are updating to 3.2.8.1 or simply making sure no allow blocks specifically have noident (which most by default won’t thankfully).

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Tags: Hack, IRC, Software, Unreal IRCd
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psyb0t – A stealthy router-based botnet discovered [Updated]

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

The folks at DroneBL discovered and analyzed a router-based botnet that is suspected to have DDoS’ed them for about 2 weeks.

The bot software, named “psyb0t”, is the “first known botnet based on exploiting consumer network devices, such as home routers and cable/dsl modems”.

Exploiting routers is in some cases more “useful” than infecting PC’s – because “most people will keep the router on 24/7″ as opposed to their computers which “most people shut down [...] in the evening before they go to bed, or when they leave the office” nenolod writes.
In his paper (which was written back in 2006 and at that time he’s been “called looney for”) he also mentions another reason why targeting SOHO routers is a good idea:

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, DroneBL, IRC, psyb0t
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DALnet releases Bahamut IRCd 1.8.6

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

After more than 2 years of silence the DALnet Coding Team released a new version of Bahamut, an IRCd mainly used on DAL.net.

First being released as version 1.8.5 there was a bugfix-release shortly thereafter as a bug has been found in channelmode +c which sometimes not only prevented control-characters as bold and underlined being sent but also stripped legitimate messages that contained certain arabic and hebrew characters.

We took the time to ask Epiphani – the Coding Teams Team-Leader – a few question about his IRCd and the history of it:

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Tags: Bahamut, DalNET, Interview, Software
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InspIRCd releases 1.2.0rc2 “PepperSteik”

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Little over 4 weeks after their last release of rc1 in the 1.2 branch, the InspIRCd project announces a new release candidate of their IRCd.

The release, called “PepperSteik”, is a recommended update since it – among a few new features – also fixes a security issue were other linked IRCds wouldn’t have their password checked on connect. There also have been a few bugs fixed which further adds to the IRCds stability.

Developer w00t calls the following items the “most notable new features” in this release:

  • Add fantasy:allowbots (to allow +B users to use fantasy commands)
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Tags: InspIRCd, IRC, Software
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GameSurge turns 5

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The GameSurge network turns 5 years today as admin pb announces on their homepage.

But, as they write in the announcement “unlike your birthday (we hope, anyway), instead of you giving US presents, well, we’re giving YOU some!”.

He continues to write that they will have “a little party on IRC in #5thAnniversary” and that they’re “doing random giveaways”. Those will consist of “a ton of Left4Dead swag or some RazerZone gear” and he says that you “can’t go wrong no matter what”.

Their contest page has a little more information about the upcoming and planned events:

Read the full post (446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Tags: GameSurge, IRC
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