metadata/glsa/glsa-200709-07.xml

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<!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>