bugtraq - bitchx sources backdoored on distribution site

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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 02:45:17 +0200
From: Michał Szwaczko <mikey@...elabs.lublin.pl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: bitchx sources backdoored on distribution site

Hi,

Can anyone verify that the bitchx 1.0c19 sources are backdoored.
The configure script contains the following code which I think is a shell daemon.
Perhaps I am making fool of myself right now since I am not a security guru but this looks weird. 
Can you verify ?

If this is true, then the host that will get the shell is smtp.wia.com which is an alias of
ftp2.bitchx.org. 

Attached is the code fragment I found in configure 
What do you think ? 

ps. after having run configure the code fragment disappears from the script. 

-- 
Michał 'Mikey' Szwaczko
Developer/Troubleshooter

You're using a keyboard!  How quaint!

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