Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200807-11 (peercast)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200807-11. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200807-11 : PeerCast: Buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200807-11 PeerCast: Buffer overflow Nico Golde reported a boundary error in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function when processing overly long HTTP Basic authentication requests. Impact : A remote attacker could send a specially craft...