DSA-1582-1 peercast -- buffer overflow

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.20060314-1etch4.

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.20060314-1etch4.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.20060314-1etch4.diff.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-handlers_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_amd64.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-servent_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0-dev_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.