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Debian: DSA-1448-1 Critical: Eggdrop Remote Code Execution Alert

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2008
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The Debian security advisories DSA-1448-1 highlight a vulnerability in eggdrop due to a buffer overflow, which could lead to remote code execution. An update is strongly advised.
It was discovered that eggdrop, an advanced IRC robot, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could result in a remote user executing arbitrary code.
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Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.17-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.18-1.1

We recommend that you upgrade your eggdrop package.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 36928 cfaa50371d39bd8e2994e37fecc6ff86
Size/MD5 checksum: 1030413 a0f9befca240072e45cd57908bb819d0
Size/MD5 checksum: 651 b3522add4d8a7d6ca05072fa2e733509

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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