The remote host is missing an update to eggdrop announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-5572.

Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update eggdrop' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-5572

Update Information: mod/server.mod/servmsg.c in Eggheads Eggdrop and Windrop 1.6.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PRIVMSG that causes an empty string to trigger a negative string length copy. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-2807. The current remote denial of service is tracked as CVE-2009-1789. ChangeLog: * Tue May 26 2009 Robert Scheck 1.6.19-4 - Added upstream ctcpfix to solve CVE-2009-1789 (#502650)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502650

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Updated on 2015-03-25