Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1583-1 gnome-peercast -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 20 May 2008
- Affected Packages:
- gnome-peercast
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 466539.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6454, CVE-2008-2040. - More information:
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNOME PeerCast, the GNOME interface to PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2007-6454
Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast 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.
- CVE-2008-2040
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), these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.4-1.1etch0.
gnome-peercast has been removed from the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your gnome-peercast package.
- CVE-2007-6454
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_amd64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnome-peercast/gnome-peercast_0.5.4-1.1etch0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.