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eggdrop -- denial of service vulnerability

Affected packages
		eggdrop	<	1.6.19_2

Details

VuXML ID	399f4cd7-4d59-11de-8811-0030843d3802
Discovery	2009-05-15
Entry	2009-05-30

Secunia reports:

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of private messages within the server module (/mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c). This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending a specially crafted message to the bot.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	34985
CVE Name	CVE-2009-1789
URL	http://secunia.com/advisories/35104/
URL	http://www.eggheads.org/news/2009/05/14/35