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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-11 Moderate: Icecast Service Interruption Threat

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2004
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Icecast administrators are encouraged to update their systems to prevent potential application failures due to external threats. Detailed security measures can be found here.
Icecast is vulnerable to a denial of service attack allowing remote users to crash the application.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200405-10
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Icecast denial of service vulnerability
      Date: May 19, 2004
      Bugs: #50935
        ID: 200405-10


Synopsis
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Icecast is vulnerable to a denial of service attack allowing remote
users to crash the application.

Background
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Icecast is a program that streams audio data to listeners over the
Internet.

Affected packages
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     Package           /   Vulnerable   /                   Unaffected
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  1  net-misc/icecast       <= 2.0.0                          >= 2.0.1

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There is an out-of-bounds read error in the web interface of Icecast
when handling Basic Authorization requests. Thi...
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