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Gentoo: GLSA-200807-11 High Severity: PeerCast Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical alert for Gentoo users concerning the PeerCast buffer overflow vulnerability that poses significant threats for remote code execution.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in PeerCast may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200807-11
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: PeerCast: Buffer overflow
      Date: July 21, 2008
      Bugs: #220281
        ID: 200807-11


Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability in PeerCast may allow for the remote
execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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PeerCast is a client and server for P2P-radio networks.

Affected packages
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     Package               /   Vulnerable   /               Unaffected
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  1  media-sound/peercast      < 0.1218-r1                >= 0.1218-r1

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Nico Golde reported a boundary error in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass()
function when processing overly long HTTP Basic authentication
requests.

Impact
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