[IRCServices] Services 5.0.60 released

Craig McLure Craig at frostycoolslug.com
Sat Mar 24 10:53:50 PDT 2007


To my knowledge, nothing has change which requires a config change for
a VERY long time, and the changelog
(http://www.ircservices.za.net/Changes.txt) seems to support that, so
you should be fine as you are

On 24/03/07, Nick Gawronski <nick at nickgawronski.com> wrote:
> Hi, In order to apply this upgrade will I need to upgrade anything in either
> ircservices.conf or modules.conf?  In memory I still have services 5.0.56
> running but on disk I have version 5.0.59, I see no reason to restart the
> version in ram if it is running correctly, the new version will just be
> loaded if the old one crashes.
> Nick Gawronski irc.nickgawronski.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
> To: "services" <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:22 PM
> Subject: [IRCServices] Services 5.0.60 released
>
>
> >     Services 5.0.60 has been released, and can be downloaded from:
> >
> > http://www.ircservices.za.net/download/   (Japan)
> > ftp://ftp.esper.net/ircservices/          (Western USA)
> >
> > c00180091fce3277121d897e0f6f2529  ircservices-5.0.60.tar.gz
> > 3a89cc811aa26bcb7f922388236253a5  ircservices-5.0.60.diff.gz
> > 34f34c690facf1bab88c60c189e2f284  ircservices-5.0.60-1.i386.rpm
> > 715c70cfbf2b1f391606c56f2228a4de  ircservices_5.0.60-1_i386.deb
> >
> > The mirrors should have it shortly.
> >
> >     This release changes the semantics of the ChanServ SET PASSWORD
> > command to remove founder privileges from all users who had previously
> > identified for the channel, to prevent users who do not know the new
> > password from performing founder-level operations.  While only a concern
> > in limited circumstances, this problem can (for example) allow a malicious
> > user who has stolen a channel password to use the SENDPASS command to
> > learn the new channel password without having to identify again.  Networks
> > for which this is a concern should upgrade as soon as possible.
> >
> > Changes in version 5.0.60
> > -------------------------
> > 2007/03/24 Changed ChanServ SET PASSWORD to remove founder privileges
> >     from any users who had previously identified for the
> >     channel (backported from 5.1a13).  Reported by
> >     ongeboren <xxx.coder at gmail.com>
> >
> >  --Andrew Church
> >    achurch at achurch.org
> >    http://achurch.org/
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