A vulnerability has been identified in Streamripper, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "httplib_parse_sc_header()" [lib/http.c] function when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to connect to a specially crafted server.
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ChangeLog
2007-08-14 : Initial release
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