Gentoo: GLSA-200807-11 High Severity: PeerCast Buffer Overflow
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July 21, 2008
A buffer overflow vulnerability in PeerCast may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
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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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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.
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