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#131735 04/10/05 01:24 AM
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Um, I'm not quite sure if this bug has been reported yet, and if not I would like to just repost.
But mIRC evaluates identifiers in topics when the user has auto-join on invite turned on.

I really don't want to post examples of my beta testing and fun times but basically when someone has /ajinvite on, and you invite them into a channel with certain names and identifiers it evaluates them.

Just would like to make this issue notiable again..


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#131736 04/10/05 03:42 AM
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I don't see what the bug is with this.
I have an Auction room on an adult network, where people can put themselves up for auction, and when there is someone the person's nick is put into the topic, and I use the identifier $nick($chan,1,v) in the topic.

If I was to join the room, whether via "auto-join on invite" or some other method, is irrelevant, I'd rather see a name in place of $nick($chan,1,v) to the code.

If the identifiers didn't evaluate, then all I'd see would be the code, not the results of the code (ie: the nick)

#131737 04/10/05 07:24 AM
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If I invite you to a channel that has certain identifier names in the channel name the identifiers will be evaluated on your (the innocent user that's just been invited to a channel) machine. It doesn't take a genious to figure out that this is a security risk.

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Yes, this has been reported before. If you're not sure use the search feature.

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Thanks for the clarification, hixxy. I misunderstood what they were referring to. Does this just affect people that join channels using the Auto-join on invite, or does it also affect people that join by manually acceping an invite?

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It is relevant to AJ on Invite only.

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#131741 04/10/05 09:23 AM
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I have made an ADDON that temporary fix this problem on mircscripts.org

#131742 04/10/05 09:22 PM
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Quote:

Yes, this has been reported before. If you're not sure use the search feature.


- I did use the search engine and searched for "auto-join" autojoin", but I only set the date back to 1 year. So I might've missed it. :tongue:

And, in reponse to RuFy
Indeed. Reason why I posted this topic. I wondered to my self why has there not been a fix in the program itself. smile


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#131743 05/10/05 12:47 PM
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Because there has not been a new version out since it was reported. smile

You'd probably find it more easily searching for invite than by searching for autojoin. laugh


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#131744 08/10/05 12:14 AM
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Workaround:

raw 332:*: {
; Channel topic
echo 3 -ti2 $2 * Topic: ' $+ $3- $+ '
halt
}

Adjust to your needs.

#131745 08/10/05 09:17 AM
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Please refrain from posting workarounds to security issues that you haven't understood. You may give people a false sense of security.

A real workaround is to turn off autojoin-on-invite, by typing: /ajinvite off


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