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FreeBSD : peercast -- buffer overflow vulnerability (31435fbc-ae73-11dc-a5f9-001a4d49522b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 29770

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Luigi Auriemma reports that peercast is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to a DoS or potentially remote code execution :

The handshakeHTTP function which handles all the requests received by the other clients is vulnerable to a heap overflow which allows an attacker to fill the loginPassword and loginMount buffers located in the Servent class with how much data he wants.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/peercasthof-adv.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?27266621

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29770

File Name: freebsd_pkg_31435fbcae7311dca5f9001a4d49522b.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 12/24/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:peercast

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6454

CWE: 119

Secunia: 28120