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CVE-2006-1148

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 73.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the procConnectArgs function in servmgr.cpp in PeerCast before 0.1217 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP GET request with a long (1) parameter name or (2) value in a URL, which triggers the overflow in the nextCGIarg function in servhs.cpp.

Affected products

• Peercast: through 0.1215; 0.1211, 0.1212

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/19169
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19291
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200603-17.xml
• http://www.infigo.hr/in_focus/INFIGO-2006-03-01
• http://www.osvdb.org/23777
• http://www.peercast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3346
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427160/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17040
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0900
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25113
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19169
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19291

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