Gentoo: GLSA-200603-17 High: PeerCast Buffer Overflow Threat
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March 21, 2006
PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-17
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: PeerCast: Buffer overflow
Date: March 21, 2006
Bugs: #123432
ID: 200603-17
Synopsis
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PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening to
radio and watching video on the Internet.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-sound/peercast < 0.1217 >= 0.1217
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INFIGO discovered a problem in the URL handling code. Buffers that are
allocated on the stack can be overflowed inside of nextCGIarg()
function.
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