Just a quick security alert for anyone running UnrealIRCd 3.2.8.1, I recieved an email this morning stating that for the past 8 months the UnrealIRCd download has been tainted. It has been tampered with and included a backdoor trojan which allows a person to execute ANY command with the privileges of the user running the ircd. The [...]
Over the next 15-30 days we will be upgrading each of our servers gradually, one at a time. To preform these upgrades each of our servers will have to be de-linked, upgraded, and then restarted. We will attempt to notice users connected to a server before de-linking it but if a server splits on its [...]
In a message posted to the Ratbox Mailinglist, Lee H wrote: We have recently uncovered a potential DoS in ircd-ratbox that could result in resource starvation of the CPU. This bug existed before we forked ircd-ratbox, as such it is present in *ALL* versions of ircd-ratbox ever released. We have now released ircd-ratbox-2.2.6, it is [...]
The popular UnrealIRCd project is in danger of falling apart if qualified C programmers don’t step up to help with the project, according to a note posted on the official UnrealIRCd web site: For the past couple of months, I (Syzop) have been struggling with severe wrist issues (RSI), preventing me from doing much (especially [...]
