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Fedora 9 : eggdrop-1.6.19-4.fc9 (2009-5568)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38939

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected eggdrop package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502650

http://www.nessus.org/u?7780eb13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38939

File Name: fedora_2009-5568.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:eggdrop, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1789

BID: 34985

FEDORA: 2009-5568