| Description: | Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in eggdrop, an advanced IRC robot. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-2807 It was discovered that eggdrop is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which could result in a remote user executing arbitrary code. The previous DSA did not fix the issue correctly. CVE-2009-1789 It was discovered that eggdrop is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, that allows remote attackers to cause a crash via a crafted PRIVMSG. For the stable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.19-1.1+lenny1. For the old stable distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.18-1etch2. For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.19-1.2 We recommend that you upgrade your eggdrop package. |