- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1583-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
May 20, 2008                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : gnome-peercast
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-6454 CVE-2008-2040
Debian Bug     : 466539

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gnome PeerCast,
the Gnome interface to PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2007-6454

    Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast 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.

CVE-2008-2040

    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), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.5.4-1.1etch0.

For the unstable distribution (sid), the first issue has been fixed in
0.5.4-1.2. The second issue will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnome-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:

      Size/MD5 checksum:      956 e2d40d2cd79ac54cefb00a6fa9b747d2
      Size/MD5 checksum:     3104 a17daf736115641d4ab3a6c41aa152c3
      Size/MD5 checksum:   800116 e689715d8e70cdb0ce684ccce063a58f

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   296926 b1ebff0148fc69634eede7fffc114d51

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   257812 33d4c4fd7bed425a4cee0268e44dcc20

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   297822 e5795eb9b0d5d08d042825e05c04c0f7

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   254172 a6e46c6422c8a76df706375cba85461e

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   346408 34f8ffc5f763a013ff5bc87832bdf77a

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   285802 62e99808d3a9a015139500c92b595089

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   284316 f84d8576550138d846b5f3e6790db54f

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   270324 e83511effbc2f89183145dae92e27ecf

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   260410 ac50ca3aa93414140f955f131fa050bc

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   251018 5ff3b23b8ec68fa47ed19f8abafac669


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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