metadata/glsa/glsa-200405-10.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200405-10">
  <title>Icecast denial of service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Icecast is vulnerable to a denial of service attack allowing remote users
    to crash the application.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icecast</product>
  <announced>May 19, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>50935</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/icecast" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">2.0.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Icecast is a program that streams audio data to listeners over the
    Internet.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    There is an out-of-bounds read error in the web interface of Icecast
    when handling Basic Authorization requests. This vulnerability can
    theorically be exploited by sending a specially crafted Authorization
    header to the server.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By exploiting this vulnerability, it is possible to crash the Icecast
    server remotely, resulting in a denial of service attack.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to
    upgrade to the latest available version of Icecast.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All users of Icecast should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=net-misc/icecast-2.0.1&quot;
    # emerge &quot;&gt;=net-misc/icecast-2.0.1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.xiph.org/archives/icecast/7144.html">Icecast 2.0.1 announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2027">CVE-2004-2027</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>