<?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>2004-05-19</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</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 ">=net-misc/icecast-2.0.1" # emerge ">=net-misc/icecast-2.0.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.xiph.org/archives/icecast/7144.html">Icecast 2.0.1 announcement</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2027">CVE-2004-2027</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter"> koon </metadata> </glsa>