full-disclosure - bitchx exploit

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Date: Thu Apr 21 18:24:22 2005
From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: bitchx exploit

On 20 Apr 2005, at 06:37, sk wrote:
>  * --[ background
>  *
>  * BitchX contains an local exploitable Buffer Overflow condition.
>  * Sometimes it is installed setUID to allow non-root users SSL
>  * access for example and therfore it could be used by a mallicious
>  * local user, to obtain root access. This code demonstrates the
>  * described vulnerability and can be used to verify the bug on
>  * your system(s).
>  */

I have never, ever seen BitchX installed suid, and there's no reason
it would be. SSL clients work just fine without suid.
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