A vulnerability has been identified in PeerCast, 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 "HTTP::getAuthUserPass()" [common/http.cpp] function when processing overly long http-basic authentication data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted request.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Nico Golde.
ChangeLog
2008-05-02 : Initial release
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