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Gentoo: GLSA-200506-15 High: PeerCast Format String Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2005
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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200506-16 reveals a critical buffer overflow flaw in the XChat application.
PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PeerCast: Format string vulnerability Date: June 19, 2005 Bugs: #96199 ID: 200506-15

Synopsis ======= PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/peercast < 0.1212 >= 0.1212
========== James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL.
Impact ===== A rem...

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