1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200603-17 / peercast |
| Release Date | March 21, 2006 |
| Latest Revision | March 21, 2006: 01 |
| Impact | high |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-sound/peercast | < 0.1217 | >= 0.1217 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #123432
PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening to radio and watching video on the Internet.
INFIGO discovered a problem in the URL handling code. Buffers that are allocated on the stack can be overflowed inside of nextCGIarg() function.
By sending a specially crafted request to the HTTP server, a remote attacker can cause a stack overflow, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1217" |