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Gentoo: GLSA-200603-17 High: PeerCast Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2006
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The Gentoo advisory GLSA 201201-15 outlines a critical vulnerability in PeerCast due to a stack-based buffer overflow, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely.
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 ======= PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening to radio and watching video on the Internet.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/peercast < 0.1217 >= 0.1217
========== 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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