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Re: Bug#466539: gnome-peercast: CVE-2007-6454 heap-based buffer overflow possibly leading to code execution



On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:57, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Package: gnome-peercast
> Version: 0.5.4-1.1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
>
>
>         Hi !
>
> CVE-2007-6454 as been fixed for peercast, but since this package
> includes a static version of the code, the vulnerability still applies
> there.
>
> As a side note, I've already done a lot of things to try to fix this,
> but upstream seems not to care at all, and didn't maintain this package
> for 1 year (last upload was my NMU)...

So am I right to conclude that we'd better remove this package rather than to 
try and fix it?


Thijs

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