[Secure-testing-team] Bug#528778: eggdrop: incomplete patch for CVE-2007-2807

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Michael S. Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> [2009-05-15 19:45]:
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:18:26 +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
[...] 
> > turns out my patch has a bug in it which opens this up for a
> > buffer overflow again in case strlen(ctcpbuf) returns 0:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/fulldisc/full-disclosure/68341
> > 
> > 
> > Too bad noone noticed that before.
> > I am going to upload a 0-day NMU now to fix this.
> > 
> > debdiff available on:
> > http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/eggdrop-1.6.19-1.1_1.6.19-1.2.patch
> > 
> > (includes the wrong bug number to close as I tried to reopen it fist but it failed because it was already archived).
> 
> does this mean that DSA-1448 needs to be reissued?

Yes

> and is that in the works?

No

> should the etch fixed version get removed from the DSA 
> list to reindicate that etch is vulnerable?

No there will be a -2 DSA if any that reflects the previous 
fix being incomplete.

Cheers
Nico
P.S. this belongs on the testing-security team mailing list 
and not to the BTS.

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