This bug has been covered before. It's an old Microsoft problem of the MS
DOS days. Certain devices were reserved like COM1, CON and LPT1. I spoke
to the author of mIRC regarding the issue some time ago and, yes any
Windows/NT-based boxen will suffer the problem unless patched. MS does
offer the patch. If you are on IRC and are not patched, you can be
disconnected via CTCP notices with '/con/con' for example in it. A common
way for lamers to use the bug is to play a WAV file in a channel. The WAV
file is named con/con.wav. Then they watch the unpatched ppl fall.
Hope this helps.
Cam
Paulo Ribeiro wrote:
> The /dev/dev Win9x bug can be exploited on fservs at IRC. If you access
> the fserv and try:
>
> <hee> fserv...
> <you> get /con/con
>
> You may receive: hee has quit (Connection reset by peer) or <hee>
> Invalid filename (or something like this). So, you may try: <you> get
> /lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/lpt1/con/con
>
> And you shall receive: hee has quit (Connection reset by peer)
>
> Yours,
> Paulo Ribeiro.
Received on Jun 08 2000
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