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Gentoo: GLSA-200709-07:02 Normal: Eggdrop Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2008
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Eggdrop clients advised to update immediately due to potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities highlighted in Gentoo's recent security advisory.
The unaffected ebuild, as reported in the original version of this Security Advisory, did not properly address all vulnerabilities

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE]        GLSA 200709-07:02                                             https://security.gentoo.org/   Severity: Normal      Title: Eggdrop: Buffer overflow       Date: September 15, 2007    Updated: September 26, 2007       Bugs: #179354         ID: 200709-07:02

Errata ===== The unaffected ebuild, as reported in the original version of this Security Advisory, did not properly address all vulnerabilities. All Eggdrop users should upgrade to net-irc/eggdrop-1.6.18-r3.

The corrected sections appear below.
Affected packages ================     -------------------------------------------------------------------      Package          /   Vulnerable   /                    Unaffected     -------------------------------------------------------------------   1  net-irc/eggdrop      < 1.6.18-r3                     >= 1.6.18-r3
Resolution ========= All Eggdrop us...

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