LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of service

LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of service A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in LIVE555 Media Server. live 2008-03-13 2008-03-13 204065 remote 2008.02.08 2008.02.08

LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming.

Luigi Auriemma reported a signedness error in the parseRTSPRequestString() function when processing short RTSP queries.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RTSP query to the vulnerable server, resulting in a crash.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All LIVE555 Media Server users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-plugins/live-2008.02.08"

Note: Due to ABI changes, applications built against LIVE555 Media Server such as VLC or MPlayer should also be rebuilt.

CVE-2007-6036 rbu p-y p-y