EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability

[wraggster]

"EFnet member Fionn 'Fudge' Kelleher reported several vulnerabilities (http://rabbit.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/ASA-2012-12-31.txt) in the IRC daemons charybdis, ircd-ratbox, and other derivative IRCds. The vulnerability was subsequently used (https://twitter.com/nixhead/status/285856011372347392) to bring down large portions of the EFnet IRC network (http://stats.efnet.org/)."By crafting a particular message, you can cause the IRC daemon to call strlen(NULL) and game over, core dumped.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/31/2241229/efnet-paralyzed-by-vulnerability