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Vulnerability Development: Re: BitchX /ignore bug

Re: BitchX /ignore bug

From: Steve Mosher <goat_at_PHOENIX.ISN.NET>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:12:42 -0300

On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Ron DuFresne wrote:
> If I read this correctly, this is not an attack perse, but a self
> annihilation is it not? and while a bug, not something one can use to
> take others ofline or server, please correct me if I read this wrong.

        It won't touch the server at all, since the problem exists within
the client. This _is_ an attack, since it will crash a client, or possibly
worse, as discussed. 

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Received on Jul 05 2000
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