CVE-2008-0548 — Steamcast 0.9.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a NULL dereference when malloc fails

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MEDIUM

Steamcast 0.9.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a NULL dereference when malloc fails

Published Feb 1, 2008

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.10%

Description

Steamcast 0.9.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a NULL dereference when malloc fails.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.10% 0.01105

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01105

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.10% (0.01105)	64.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.10% (0.01105)	61.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.47% (0.00474)	62.69th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.30% (0.00298)	70.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 5, 2024	0.28% (0.00283)	68.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.26% (0.00264)	65.11th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.26% (0.00264)	62.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-189

References (2)

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/steamcazz-adv.txt
x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39927
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/steamcazz-adv.txt		x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39927		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 1, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 1, 2008

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-0548

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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