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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1148: PeerCast: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1148: PeerCast: Buffer overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/10/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the procConnectArgs function in servmgr.cpp in PeerCast before 0.1217 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP GET request with a long (1) parameter name or (2) value in a URL, which triggers the overflow in the nextCGIarg function in servhs.cpp.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-sound-peercast

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