1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200506-15 / peercast |
| Release Date | June 19, 2005 |
| Latest Revision | May 22, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | high |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-sound/peercast | < 0.1212 | >= 0.1212 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #96199
PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution.
PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology.
James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL.
A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request with a specially crafted URL to a PeerCast server to execute arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest available version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1212" |