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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200709-07">
+ <title>Eggdrop: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A remote stack-based buffer overflow has been discovered in Eggdrop.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">eggdrop</product>
+ <announced>September 15, 2007</announced>
+ <revised>September 26, 2007: 02</revised>
+ <bug>179354</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-irc/eggdrop" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.6.18-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.18-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Eggdrop is an IRC bot extensible with C or Tcl.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Bow Sineath discovered a boundary error in the file
+ mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c when processing overly long private messages
+ sent by an IRC server.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice an Eggdrop user to connect the bot to a
+ malicious server, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code
+ on the host running Eggdrop.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Eggdrop users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/eggdrop-1.6.18-r3&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2807">CVE-2007-2807</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:04:09 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:04:22 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:43:27 +0000">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>