ircii-pana (BitchX) 74p4 overflow

From: Michal Zalewski (lcamtufat_private)
Date: Mon May 25 1998 - 02:25:02 PDT

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    Recently I found interesting overflow in dgets(...) function in one of the
    most popular irc clients, BitchX 74p4 (by panasync). You can cause remote
    client crash (and possibly much more) when you're fingered (/finger
    built-in command) by victim - simply create eg. .plan with line longer
    than 2 kbytes.  Depending on used line (ln /dev/urandom ~/.plan is nice),
    client will crash with SEGV immediately or during any next '/' command...
    
    Dumb, isn't it? For test purposes, /finger lcamtufat_private
    
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