CVE-2008-2040

Publication date

2008-04-30 15:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function (core/common/http.cpp) in Peercast 0.1218 and gnome-peercast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Basic Authentication string with a long (1) username or (2) password.