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Debian DSA-1441-1 : peercast - buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 29808

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the peercast packages.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain peercast.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457300

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1441

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29808

File Name: debian_DSA-1441.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/31/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:peercast, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6454

CWE: 119

DSA: 1441