CVE-2008-6454

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Debian Linux Security Advisory 1583-1

Posted May 20, 2008

Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Security Advisory 1583-1 - Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gnome PeerCast, the Gnome interface to PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server. 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. 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.

tags | advisory, remote, web, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary, vulnerability

systems | linux, debian

advisories | CVE-2008-6454, CVE-2008-2040

SHA-256 | 71942b2ac6658a087c35510bc6a9190f912af7eaf0b6ca21034f4ac8552df7f4

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