<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200506-15"> <title>PeerCast: Format string vulnerability</title> <synopsis> PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary code execution. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">peercast</product> <announced>2005-06-19</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>96199</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-sound/peercast" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.1212</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.1212</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> PeerCast is a media streaming system based on P2P technology. </p> </background> <description> <p> James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request with a specially crafted URL to a PeerCast server to execute arbitrary code. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest available version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1212"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00077-05282005">GulfTech Advisory</uri> <uri link="http://www.peercast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11596">PeerCast Announcement</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1806">CVE-2005-1806</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-06-15T19:02:57Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-06-15T19:42:18Z"> DerCorny </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-06-19T19:09:07Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>