Debian DSA-1826-1 : eggdrop - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44691

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in eggdrop, an advanced IRC robot. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- 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.

Solution

Upgrade the eggdrop package.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44691

File Name: debian_DSA-1826.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eggdrop, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2807, CVE-2009-1789

BID: 24070, 34985

DSA: 1826

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