Debian: DSA-7896-3 Urgent: PeerStream Command Injection Vulnerability
debian
May 20, 2008
Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic
Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker ...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1218+svn20080104-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your peercast package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1070 10e545471f649cd37409dc9cbfd7960a
Size/MD5 checksum: 534016 d9e83aa7e66f4d3b160d7c4c8b2a3a4f
Size/MD5 checksum: 7458 c7fc173230621f05137a6420a48b3347
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 6828 ac385ad05a69ba429c2e300920ff1192
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
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