BitchX

BitchX
Developer(s) Colten Edwards (panasync) and Kevin Easton (caf)
Stable release 1.2.1 (November 14, 2014 (2014-11-14)) [±]
Preview release BitchX-1.3 (January 1, 2013 (2013-01-01)) [±]
Repository sourceforge.net/p/bitchx/git/ci/master/tree/
Written in C
Operating system Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, OS X
Type IRC client
License Revised BSD license
Website www.bitchx.org

BitchX /ˈbɪtʃɛks/ is a free IRC client[1] and has been considered to be the most popular ircII-based IRC client.[2] The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client.[2] It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C and is a TUI application utilizing ncurses. GTK+ toolkit support has been dropped. It works on all Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It is originally based on ircII-EPIC[2] and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. It supports IPv6,[3] multiple servers and SSL and a subset of UTF-8 (characters contained in ISO-8859-1) with an unofficial patch.[4]

BitchX has frequently been noted to be a popular IRC client for Unix-like systems.[1][5][6][7][8][9]

Development of BitchX was on hiatus for several years but is now resuming.[10] The latest official release is version 1.2

BitchX does not yet support Unicode.[11]

Security

It was known that early versions of BitchX were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in that they could be caused to crash by passing specially-crafted strings as arguments to certain IRC commands. This was before format string attacks became a well-known class of vulnerability.[12]

The previous version of BitchX, released in 2004, has security problems allowing remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code on the client's machine (CVE-2007-3360, CVE-2007-4584).

On April 26, 2009, Slackware removed BitchX from its distribution, citing the numerous unresolved security issues.[13]

The aforementioned vulnerabilities were fixed in the sources for the 1.2 release.[14][15][16]


See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Opinion: Get online for (free) Linux support!". CNN. June 17, 1999. Retrieved Sep 29, 2009. ("If you're already using Linux, then you have your choice of several (IRC) clients. BitchX is a popular one.")
  2. 1 2 3 Charalabidis, Alex (1999-12-15). "Unix Clients: BitchX". The Book of IRC: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Relay Chat (1st ed.). San Francisco, California: No Starch Press. pp. 44 – 45. ISBN 1-886411-29-8.
  3. ↑ Peter Loshin (2004). IPv6: Theory, Protocol, and Practice. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 316.
  4. ↑ "bitchx: Detail: 3204631 - Add UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 conversion in output text". SourceForge.net. 2011-03-09. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  5. ↑ Review:BitchX (Amiga), IRCreviews.org, Retrieved 2009-09-29 ("BitchX is favoured by many more experienced IRC users")
  6. ↑ A Day in the Life of #Apache, OSDir.com (March 25, 2005), Retrieved 2009-09-29 ("XChat, mIRC, and bitchx are several popular clients")
  7. ↑ How to use IRC guide, Overclockersclub.com (Dec. 4, 2006), Retrieved 2009-09-29 ("There are many different clients available, some of the more popular ones include BitchX, XChat, Trillian, BeserIRC, Klient ....")
  8. ↑ What about P2P on *nix?, Broadbandreports.com (Sept. 13, 2002), Retrieved 2009-09-29 ("There are several IRC clients for Linux. Among the best are X-Chat and BitchX.")
  9. ↑ BitchX Configuration Guide, Linuxhelp.net (last updated Sept. 19, 2003), Retrieved 2009-09-29 ("BitchX is one of the most popular IRC Client available today for *nix systems.")
  10. ↑ "bitchx | Download bitchx software for free at". www.bitchx.org/. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  11. ↑ "BitchX wiki on GitHub: ANSI/UTF-8". Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  12. ↑ Ryan Russell (2002). Hack Proofing Your Network. Syngress. p. 329.
  13. ↑ "The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories". Slackware.com. 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  14. ↑ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revision 5". Bitchx.svn.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  15. ↑ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revision 6". Bitchx.svn.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  16. ↑ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revision 11". Bitchx.svn.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

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