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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200405-10.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!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>