Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming server, is vulnerable to a heap overflow in the HTTP server code, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SOURCE request.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1441. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(29808);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-6454");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1441");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1441-1 : peercast - buffer overflow");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video
streaming server, is vulnerable to a heap overflow in the HTTP server
code, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and
possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SOURCE request."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457300"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1441"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the peercast packages.
The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain peercast.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:peercast");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/12/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/31");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libpeercast0", reference:"0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libpeercast0-dev", reference:"0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"peercast", reference:"0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"peercast-handlers", reference:"0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"peercast-servent", reference:"0.1217.toots.20060314-1etch0")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | peercast | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:peercast |
debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0 |