[IRCServices] Services 4.5.41 released

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sun Jun 23 19:15:01 PDT 2002


     Services 4.5.41 has been released, and can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.ircservices.za.net/pub/ircservices/  (South Africa)
ftp://ftp.esper.net/ircservices/               (USA, California)

9c2724267ce4360163bbda7ff3d5e341  ircservices-4.5.41.tar.gz
f601eb2624e1424e5ede2179c06f46d9  ircservices-4.5.41.diff.gz

The other mirrors should have it shortly.

     As noted below, this version fixes a bug which can allow Services
to be crashed by any user, and possibly (unconfirmed) allow the execution
of arbitrary code under the user Services is running as.  All users should
immediately upgrade to this version of Services.

Changes in version 4.5.41
-------------------------
2002/06/24	Fixed format-string crash bug reported by Lucas Nussbaum
		    <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/