Debian DSA-1826-1 Critical: Eggdrop Buffer Overflow and DoS Risk

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
(DSA-1448-1) 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 (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.19-1.1+lenny1.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.18-1etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.19-1.2


We recommend that you upgrade your eggdrop package.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
wil...