GLSA 200803-22: LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of Service

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Severity:	normal
Title:	LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of Service
Date:	03/13/2008
Bugs:	#204065
ID:	200803-22

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in LIVE555 Media Server.

Background

LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-plugins/live	< 2008.02.08	>= 2008.02.08	All supported architectures

Description

Luigi Auriemma reported a signedness error in the parseRTSPRequestString() function when processing short RTSP queries.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RTSP query to the vulnerable server, resulting in a crash.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All LIVE555 Media Server users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-plugins/live-2008.02.08"

Note: Due to ABI changes, applications built against LIVE555 Media Server such as VLC or MPlayer should also be rebuilt.

References

CVE-2007-6036

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-22.xml

Concerns?

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