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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200603-17">
+ <title>PeerCast: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ PeerCast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may lead to the execution
+ of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">peercast</product>
+ <announced>March 21, 2006</announced>
+ <revised>March 21, 2006: 01</revised>
+ <bug>123432</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-sound/peercast" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.1217</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.1217</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ PeerCast is a Peer to Peer broadcasting technology for listening
+ to radio and watching video on the Internet.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ INFIGO discovered a problem in the URL handling code. Buffers that
+ are allocated on the stack can be overflowed inside of nextCGIarg()
+ function.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ By sending a specially crafted request to the HTTP server, a
+ remote attacker can cause a stack overflow, resulting in the execution
+ of 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 version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-sound/peercast-0.1217&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2006-1148">CVE-2006-1148</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:34:53 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:55:02 +0000">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:16:00 +0000">
+ adir
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>