Debian Security Advisory

DSA-089-2 icecast-server -- remote root exploit (and others)

Date Reported:

05 Dec 2001

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 2264, BugTraq ID 2932, BugTraq ID 2933.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0784, CVE-2001-1083, CVE-2001-1230.

More information:

The icecast-server (a streaming music server) package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has several security problems:

if a client added a / after the filename of a file to be downloaded the server would crash
by escaping dots as E it was possible to circumvent security measures and download arbitrary files
there were several buffer overflows that could be exploited to gain root access

These have been fixed in version 1.3.10-1, and we strongly recommend that you upgrade your icecast-server package immediately.

The i386 package mentioned in the DSA-089-1 advisory was incorrectly compiled and will not run on Debian GNU/Linux potato machines. This has been corrected in version 1.3.10-1.1.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/icecast-server_1.3.10-1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/icecast-server_1.3.10-1.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/icecast-server_1.3.10-1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/icecast-server_1.3.10-1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/icecast-server_1.3.10-1.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/icecast-server_1.3.10-1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/icecast-server_1.3.10-1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/icecast-server_1.3.10-1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. (DSA-089-2)