gnome-peercast - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNOME PeerCast,
the GNOME interface to PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

• CVE-2007-6454
  Luigi Auriemma discovered that PeerCast 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.
• CVE-2008-2040
  Nico Golde discovered that PeerCast, a P2P audio and video streaming
  server, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP Basic
  Authentication code, allowing a remote attacker to crash PeerCast or
  execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.5.4-1.1etch0.

gnome-peercast has been removed from the unstable distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your gnome-peercast package.