Executive Summary

Summary
Title PeerCast: Buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-200801-22 First vendor Publication 2008-01-30
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-01-30
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PeerCast.

Background

PeerCast is a client and server for P2P-radio network

Description

Luigi Auriemma reported a heap-based buffer overflow within the
"handshakeHTTP()" function when processing HTTP requests.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the vulnerable server, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the PeerCast server, usually "nobody".

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PeerCast users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/peercast-0.1218"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-6454 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6454

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-22.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-22.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18740
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18740
Title: DSA-1441-1 peercast
Description: Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, 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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1441-1
CVE-2007-6454
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): peercast
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200801-22 (peercast)
File : nvt/glsa_200801_22.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: peercast
File : nvt/freebsd_peercast.nasl
2008-05-27 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1583-1 (gnome-peercast)
File : nvt/deb_1583_1.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1441-1 (peercast)
File : nvt/deb_1441_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40250 PeerCast servhs.cpp handshakeHTTP Function SOURCE Request Remote Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-05-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1583.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200801-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-31 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1441.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-24 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_31435fbcae7311dca5f9001a4d49522b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-18 Name : The remote web server is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability.
File : peercast_01218.nasl - Type : ACT_MIXED_ATTACK

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