Executive Summary

Summary
Title Icecast: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-38 First vendor Publication 2014-12-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-26
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been found in Icecast, possibly resulting in privilege escalation or disclosure of information.

Background

Icecast is an open source alternative to SHOUTcast that supports MP3, OGG (Vorbis/Theora) and AAC streaming.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icecast:

* Icecast does not properly handle shared file descriptors (CVE-2014-9018)
* Supplementary group privileges are not changed (CVE-2014-9091)

Impact

A local attacker can possibly gain escalated privileges or obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Icecast users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/icecast-2.4.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-9018 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9018
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-9091 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9091

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-38.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-38.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 24

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-12-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-38.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16394.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16435.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16483.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-754.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-755.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-28 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-231.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-27 13:25:15
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-26 05:26:57
  • First insertion