CVE-2008-2040: Peercast

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 14.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Peercast Peercast: version 0.1218 only

Published 2008-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.