CVE-2007-6454: Peercast

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 16.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the handshakeHTTP function in servhs.cpp in PeerCast 0.1217 and earlier, and SVN 344 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long SOURCE request.

Affected products

• Peercast Peercast: up to and including 0.1217; up to and including svn_344; version 0.1211 only; version 0.1212 only; version 0.1215 only

Published 2007-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.