GLSA 201412-38: Icecast: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Icecast: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	12/26/2014
Bugs:	#529956, #530784
ID:	201412-38

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.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/icecast	< 2.4.1	>= 2.4.1	All supported architectures

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

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

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.