[ GLSA 200709-07 ] Eggdrop: Buffer overflow

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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Eggdrop: Buffer overflow
      Date: September 15, 2007
      Bugs: #179354
        ID: 200709-07

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Synopsis

A remote stack-based buffer overflow has been discovered in Eggdrop.

Background

Eggdrop is an IRC bot extensible with C or Tcl.

Affected packages

     Package          /   Vulnerable   /                    Unaffected
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  1  net-irc/eggdrop      < 1.6.18-r2                     >= 1.6.18-r2

Description

Bow Sineath discovered a boundary error in the file mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c when processing overly long private messages sent by an IRC server.

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Impact

A remote attacker could entice an Eggdrop user to connect the bot to a malicious server, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code on the host running Eggdrop.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Eggdrop users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/eggdrop-1.6.18-r2"

References

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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-2807
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2807

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-07.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

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