CVE-2008-0550

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 53.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in Steamcast 0.9.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a certain HTTP request that leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by a long User-Agent header.

Affected products

Radio Toolbox Steamcast: through 0.9.75

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/steamcazz-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/steamcazz.zip
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39928
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/steamcazz-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/steamcazz.zip
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39928

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