Bugtraq: Re: DCC HiJacking patch for BitchX 75p1

[andy () SS5 XECU NET (Andy Dills)]

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Alessio Orlandi wrote:

> the ports will be quiet consecutive. Bad.. Bad... So.. let's add a
> random value to the port returned by the system. All is now fixed.
> Patch follows
Your patch changes the order, but there is still order.

You need to call srand() once before using rand, to ensure actual
randonimity.

Andy
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