Fedora 10 Update: eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc10
Summary
Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed
for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts
and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is
able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots.
Update Information:
mod/server.mod/servmsg.c in Eggheads Eggdrop and Windrop 1.6.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PRIVMSG that causes an empty string to trigger a negative string length copy. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-2807. The current remote denial of service is tracked as CVE-2009-1789.
Change Log
* Tue May 26 2009 Robert Scheck
References
[ 1 ] Bug #502650 - CVE-2009-1789 eggdrop DoS (crash) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502650
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update eggdrop' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .