gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200603-17.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200603-17">
  <title>PeerCast: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the execution
    of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">peercast</product>
  <announced>2006-03-21</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-03-21</revised>
  <bug>123432</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/peercast" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.1217</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.1217</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening
    to radio and watching video on the Internet.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    INFIGO discovered a problem in the URL handling code. Buffers that
    are allocated on the stack can be overflowed inside of nextCGIarg()
    function.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/peercast-0.1217"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2006-1148">CVE-2006-1148</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-03-11T11:34:53Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-12T17:55:02Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-18T02:16:00Z">
    adir
  </metadata>
</glsa>