<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!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 ">=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>