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| <glsa id="200501-04"> |
| <title>Shoutcast Server: Remote code execution</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Shoutcast Server contains a possible buffer overflow that could lead to the |
| execution of arbitrary code. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">Shoutcast-server-bin</product> |
| <announced>January 05, 2005</announced> |
| <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised> |
| <bug>75482</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="media-sound/shoutcast-server-bin" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.9.5</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="le">1.9.4-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Shoutcast Server is Nullsoft's streaming audio server. It runs on a |
| variety of platforms, including Linux, and is extremely popular with |
| Internet broadcasters. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Part of the Shoutcast Server Linux binary has been found to improperly |
| handle sprintf() parsing. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A malicious attacker could send a formatted URL request to the |
| Shoutcast Server. This formatted URL would cause either the server |
| process to crash, or the execution of arbitrary code. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All Shoutcast Server users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/shoutcast-server-bin-1.9.5"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385350">BugTraq Announcement</uri> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1373">CVE-2004-1373</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:31:08 +0000"> |
| lewk |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:23:19 +0000"> |
| koon |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:51:10 +0000"> |
| chriswhite |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |