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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-15
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Severity: High
Title: PeerCast: Format string vulnerability
Date: June 19, 2005
Bugs: #96199
ID: 200506-15
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Synopsis
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PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow
arbitrary code execution.
Background
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PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-sound/peercast < 0.1212 >= 0.1212
Description
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James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that
PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a
request with a malformed URL.
Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request
with a specially crafted URL to a PeerCast server to execute arbitrary
code.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest available version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1212"
References
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[ 1 ] GulfTech Advisory
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00077-05282005
[ 2 ] PeerCast Announcement
http://www.peercast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11596
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-15.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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