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<!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>June 19, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</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 &quot;&gt;=media-sound/peercast-0.1212&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&amp;article_id=00077-05282005">GulfTech Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.peercast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11596">PeerCast Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1806">CVE-2005-1806</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:02:57 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:42:18 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:09:07 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>