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PeerCast: format string vulnerability

Package(s):peercast CVE #(s):
Created:June 20, 2005 Updated:June 21, 2005
Description: James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that PeerCast (v < 0.1212) insecurely implements formatted printing when receiving a request with a malformed URL. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request with a specially crafted URL to a PeerCast server to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200506-15 2005-06-19
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