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BitchX
BitchX logo - ACiD.png
Developer(s) Colten Edwards (panasync) and Kevin Easton (caf)
Stable release 1.2.1 (November 14, 2014; 4 years ago (2014-11-14)) [±]
Preview release BitchX-1.3 (January 1, 2013; 6 years ago (2013-01-01)) [±]

Repository
  • sourceforge.net/p/bitchx/git/ci/master/tree/
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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]


The latest official release is version 1.2


BitchX does not yet support Unicode.[10]




Contents






  • 1 Security


  • 2 See also


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Security[edit]


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.[11]


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.[12]


The aforementioned vulnerabilities were fixed in the sources for the 1.2 release.[13][14][15]



See also[edit]




  • Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients

  • Internet Relay Chat

  • Internet Relay Chat Client



References[edit]





  1. ^ ab "Opinion: Get online for (free) Linux support!". CNN. June 17, 1999. Retrieved Sep 29, 2009..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} ("If you're already using Linux, then you have your choice of several (IRC) clients. BitchX is a popular one.")


  2. ^ abc 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 wiki on GitHub: ANSI/UTF-8". Retrieved 2016-05-13.


  11. ^ Ryan Russell (2002). Hack Proofing Your Network. Syngress. p. 329.


  12. ^ "The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories". Slackware.com. 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2011-07-09.


  13. ^ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revision 5". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2018-01-24.


  14. ^ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revisions 6, 7". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2018-01-24.


  15. ^ "SourceForge.net Repository - [bitchx] Revisions 11, 12, 13". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2018-01-24.




External links[edit]



  • Official website


  • BitchX on SourceForge.net


  • "BitchX". Freecode.


  • BitchX IRC clients at Curlie


  • BitchX shell providers at Curlie











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