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Gentoo: 200501-04 Normal: Shoutcast Server Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2005
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Gentoo GLSA 202302-10 informs users of a moderate severity remote code execution vulnerability in Icecast Server caused by improper input validation.
Shoutcast Server contains a possible buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Shoutcast Server: Remote code execution Date: January 05, 2005 Bugs: #75482 ID: 200501-04

Synopsis ======= Shoutcast Server contains a possible buffer overflow that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Shoutcast Server is Nullsoft's streaming audio server. It runs on a variety of platforms, including Linux, and is extremely popular with Internet broadcasters.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/shoutcast-server-bin <= 1.9.4-r1 >= 1.9.5
========== Part of the Shoutcast Server Linux binary has been found to improperly...

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