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Security
PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution.
| Package | media-sound/peercast on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 0.1212 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 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"
Release date
June 19, 2005
Latest revision
May 22, 2006: 02
Severity
high
Exploitable
remote
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