Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1582-1 peercast -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 20 May 2008
- Affected Packages:
- peercast
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 478573.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2040. - More information:
-
Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker to crash PeerCast or execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1218+svn20080104-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your peercast package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1.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.20060314-1etch1.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.20060314-1etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_amd64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.