<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200904-13"> <title>Ventrilo: Denial of service</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability has been discovered in Ventrilo, allowing for a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">ventrilo-server-bin</product> <announced>2009-04-14</announced> <revised count="01">2009-04-14</revised> <bug>234819</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">3.0.3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Ventrilo is a Voice over IP group communication server. </p> </background> <description> <p> Luigi Auriemma reported a NULL pointer dereference in Ventrilo when processing packets with an invalid version number followed by another packet. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to the server, resulting in a crash. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Ventrilo users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin-3.0.3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3680">CVE-2008-3680</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-04-14T12:02:23Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-04-14T12:03:30Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>