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May 29, 2007

EggHead Eggdrop IRC Bot Vulnerability


IRC Bot software, Eggdrop 1.6.18 (and possibly earlier versions) is reported to have a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c.

This vulnerability can allow code to be executed via a private message.

The vulnerability has been reported to EggHeads however at the time of this post no update has been made available. Anyone running Eggdrop software should remove the server.module until a patch has been released.

Posted in IRC News by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2007-05-29 15:57 ET (GMT-5)

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