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Debian Woody: DSA 541-1 Moderate: Icecast-Server XSS Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2004
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Debian Advisory DSA 541-1 addresses a cross site scripting issue in Icecast-Server. Update recommended for security.
Markus Wörle discovered a cross site scripting problem in status-display (list.cgi) of the icecast internal webserver.

Summary

Markus Wörle discovered a cross site scripting problem in
status-display (list.cgi) of the icecast internal webserver, an MPEG
layer III streaming server. The UserAgent variable is not properly
html_escaped so that an attacker could cause the client to execute
arbitrary Java script commands.


For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.11-4.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.12-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your icecast-server package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Severity
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Package: icecast-server
CVE ID: CAN-2004-0781

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