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streamripper: buffer overflow

Package(s):streamripper CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3124
Created:August 28, 2006 Updated:September 6, 2006
Description: Ulf Harnhammer from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that streamripper, a utility to record online radio-streams, performs insufficient sanitizing of data received from the streaming server, which might lead to buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200609-01 2006-09-06
Debian DSA-1158-1 2006-08-25
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