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CVE-2008-2040

Date: April 30, 2008

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (17)

http://secunia.com/advisories/30020
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2040
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28986
http://secunia.com/advisories/31182
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1583
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1582
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1410/references
http://secunia.com/advisories/30325
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-11.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/30320
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478680
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2040
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478573
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42092
http://secunia.com/advisories/29962
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1409/references
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2040

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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