PeerCast: Format string vulnerability

PeerCast: Format string vulnerability PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution. peercast 2005-06-19 2006-05-22 96199 remote 0.1212 0.1212

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:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1212"

GulfTech Advisory PeerCast Announcement CVE-2005-1806 koon DerCorny koon