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Gentoo: GLSA-202311-12 Urgent: HypotheticalApp Remote Code Execution Flaw

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2008
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Recent discoveries reveal a buffer overflow issue affecting PeerCast on Gentoo systems. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to the most current versions to mitigate potential exploits.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PeerCast.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                        GLSA 200801-22:02
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: PeerCast: Buffer overflow
      Date: January 30, 2008
   Updated: January 30, 2008
      Bugs: #202747
        ID: 200801-22:02


Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PeerCast.

Background
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PeerCast is a client and server for P2P-radio network

Affected packages
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     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected
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  1  media-sound/peercast      < 0.1218                      >= 0.1218

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Luigi Auriemma reported a heap-based buffer overflow within the
"handshakeHTTP()" function when processing HTTP requests.

Impact
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A remote attacker could ...
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