glsa-201412-38.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-38">
  <title>Icecast: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in Icecast, possibly resulting
    in privilege escalation or disclosure of information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icecast</product>
  <announced>December 26, 2014</announced>
  <revised>December 26, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>529956</bug>
  <bug>530784</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/icecast" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Icecast is an open source alternative to SHOUTcast that supports MP3,
      OGG (Vorbis/Theora) and AAC streaming.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icecast:</p>
    
    <ul>
      <li>Icecast does not properly handle shared file descriptors
        (CVE-2014-9018)
      </li>
      <li>Supplementary group privileges are not changed (CVE-2014-9091)</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker can possibly gain escalated privileges or obtain
      sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Icecast users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/icecast-2.4.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9018">CVE-2014-9018</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9091">CVE-2014-9091</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:16:19 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:40:23 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>