CVE-2009-1789 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Eggheads Eggdrop and Windrop versions 1.6.19 and earlier. A remote attacker can crash the IRC bot by sending a specially crafted PRIVMSG, which leads to an empty string triggering a negative string length copy. This issue arose from an incorrect fix for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2007-2807. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity and does not require authentication, resulting in a partial availability impact (denial of service). While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, an exploit (EDB-8695) is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite this, the CVE has minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting it is not widely recognized or actively targeted.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eggheads:eggdrop:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eggheads:eggdrop:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eggheads:eggdrop:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eggheads:eggdrop:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eggheads:eggdrop:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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