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:
Read the full story: DSA-1583 gnome-peercast - buffer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1583
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.
Read the full story: DSA-1582 peercast - buffer overflow: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1582
Luigi Auriemma, Alin Rad Pop, Rémi Denis-Courmont, Quovodis, Guido
Landi, Felipe Manzano, Anibal Sacco and others discovered multiple
vulnerabilities in vlc, an application for playback and streaming of
audio and video. In the worst case, these weaknesses permit a remote,
unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the user running vlc.
Read the full story: DSA-1543 vlc - multiple vulnerabilities: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543