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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0518 -- [Debian] New peercast packages fix arbitrary code execution 21 May 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: peercast Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Denial of Service Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2008-2040 Ref: ESB-2008.0515 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1582 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1582-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 20, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : peercast Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-2040 Debian Bug : 478573 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 execure arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1. 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. Upgrade instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1070 10e545471f649cd37409dc9cbfd7960a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 534016 d9e83aa7e66f4d3b160d7c4c8b2a3a4f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 7458 c7fc173230621f05137a6420a48b3347 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/peercast-handlers_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 6828 ac385ad05a69ba429c2e300920ff1192 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/peercast/libpeercast0_0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 185526 f4beb2933fa577c36e8797c165d3057c 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