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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200709-07.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200709-07">
<title>Eggdrop: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>
A remote stack-based buffer overflow has been discovered in Eggdrop.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">eggdrop</product>
<announced>September 15, 2007</announced>
<revised>September 26, 2007: 02</revised>
<bug>179354</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/eggdrop" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.6.18-r3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.6.18-r3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Eggdrop is an IRC bot extensible with C or Tcl.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
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.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
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.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Eggdrop users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/eggdrop-1.6.18-r3&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2807">CVE-2007-2807</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:04:09 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:04:22 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:43:27 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>