Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1441-1 peercast -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 28 Dec 2007
- Affected Packages:
- peercast
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 457300.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6454. - More information:
-
Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, is vulnerable to a heap overflow in the HTTP server code, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SOURCE request.
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain peercast.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1218+svn20071220+2.
We recommend that you upgrade your peercast packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-handlers_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.