<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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>