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Debian: DSA-1441-1 High: PeerCast Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2007
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Mitigations for PeerCast's severe buffer overflow flaw allowing remote code execution on Debian platforms.
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 ...

Summary


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

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1218+svn20071220+2.

We recommend that you upgrade your peercast packages.

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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 778 153071edd20929f6113345ed9d127853
Size/MD5 checksum: 534016 d9e83aa7e66f4d3b160d7c4c8b2a3a4f
Size/MD5 ch...

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