Vulnerability in Eggdrop / Windrop 1.6.19

A vulnerability in the Eggdrop and Windrop bot has been found which prompts a new release.

The vulnerabilitiy is present in both latest versions of the bot software 1.6.19 which has been released back in April 2008.

A posting on the Full Disclosure mailinglist goes into more detail, describing how one can at least crash vulnerable bots:

One possible exploit anyone can send to the IRC server to crash eggdrop:

PRIVMSG eggdrop :\1\1

The only resolution at this time is upgrading old bots with the provided fix.

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Tags: Eggdrop, Hack, IRC, Software

One Response to “Vulnerability in Eggdrop / Windrop 1.6.19”

  1. Gravatar Elmaron Says:

    Those spreading CTCP parser bugs in multiple projects start to get ashaming I find (I also heard of Linkinus having issues, although not crashing).

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