[IRCServices] Services 4.5.41 released

Dennis Sela Schutzgeist at uni.de
Mon Jun 24 02:34:00 PDT 2002


Hello Saturn,

the bug is in both IRCServices-versions
Version 4.5.41 and 5.0pre5 (beta) are fixed!


Version 4.5
-----------
2002/06/24 .41  Fixed format-string crash bug reported by Lucas Nussbaum
                    <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>
2002/06/24 pre5 Applied fix to format-string bug from version 4.5.41.


Have a nice update-day ;)

Dennis Sela

Monday, June 24, 2002, 2:20:50 AM, you wrote:

SD> Is that bug in the beta currently?  or just 4.x?

SD> ----- Original Message -----
SD> From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
SD> To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
SD> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:14 AM
SD> Subject: [IRCServices] Services 4.5.41 released


>>      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/