[cod] SecurityFocus

[Matthew Keen]

Yeah we ran this patch on our SoF2 servers here down in the server farm, 
works a treat, no more problems...

Only annoying thing was taking the servers down first (or waiting for 
someoen to crash it) before I applied the patch on each server :)

Jay Vasallo wrote:

> I can feel your fustration. Untill recently, I had no idea I had a 
> "non-patched" sof2 linux binaries. Well someone banned someone for 
> cheating. So the little prick tracked down my range and keep taking 
> the servers down three to 8 times a day. Since sof2 takes barely 
> nothing to run, we place them on all one box. The exploit would crash 
> every server on the box. Delta Ray fixed me right up with the Luigi 
> patch and the little hacker is now non-existant. So his patches 
> certainly work. I could guarantee that Ryan is gonna fix it up for the 
> official release. Ryan has always done us right!
>
> -Jay
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian mu" <mu.llamas at gmail.com>
> To: <cod at icculus.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [cod] SecurityFocus
>
>
>> Yeah just want to apologise, if he has approached everyone and had
>> negative feedback from them in terms of them fixing it (but then again
>> its tricky, if they aren't going to patch it for sure, isnt that more
>> reason to release a patch and not release the exploit?), then yes I
>> can understand it more in truth, and I'm getting more of an impression
>> at least whilst I still wouldn't do it, he seems like someone who at
>> least has gone down the path of contacting the correct people, so in
>> that respect I'm probably a little hasty with comments, and fair play
>> to him on that side.
>>
>> I'm just in a bad mood as been trying to fix servers all day because 
>> of it hehe.
>>
>