Summary
The remote host is missing an update to peercast
announced via advisory DSA 1582-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201582-1
Insight
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2040 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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