[ GLSA 200506-15 ] PeerCast: Format string vulnerability

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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_at_gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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