Ticket #1065 (new Defect)
Opened 3 years ago
CTCP responses not throttled -- Can cause excess flood (and possible k-line)
| Reported by: | preaction | Owned by: | timothy |
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| Priority: | High | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Chat Core (IRC) | Version: | 2.1 (Mac) |
| Severity: | Blocker | Keywords: | ctcp response throttle |
| Cc: |
Description
Automatic responses from CTCP requests (such as "version" or "ping") need to be throttled to avoid flooding the server. This is a potential exploit (recently used on freenode).
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