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Synopsis	String format vulnerability in icecast

Advisory ID	RHSA-2001:004-04

Issue Date	2001-01-23

Updated On	2001-01-24

Product	Red Hat Powertools

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1. Topic:

A remote vulnerablity allows execution of arbitrary code.

2. Problem description:

A string format vulnerability that allows the execution of arbitrary
commands exists in all versions of icecast. A patch was posted to Bugtraq
to solve the problem and has been incorporated into this update. All users
of icecast should apply this update.

3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information)

4. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - alpha, i386, sparc
Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - alpha, i386, sparc
Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - alpha, i386, sparc
Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - alpha, i386

5. RPMs required:

6. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
6e10a41120782afa633229384a3de9f5  6.0/en/os/SRPMS/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.src.rpm
feba1b51874808c6d59eae717adc116d  6.0/en/os/alpha/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.alpha.rpm
17f5ed6b597b38456faff7e8bd1eb828  6.0/en/os/i386/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.i386.rpm
e8c06fc3348e60a3053e7fad06dedeec  6.0/en/os/sparc/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.sparc.rpm
6e10a41120782afa633229384a3de9f5  6.1/en/os/SRPMS/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.src.rpm
feba1b51874808c6d59eae717adc116d  6.1/en/os/alpha/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.alpha.rpm
17f5ed6b597b38456faff7e8bd1eb828  6.1/en/os/i386/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.i386.rpm
e8c06fc3348e60a3053e7fad06dedeec  6.1/en/os/sparc/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.sparc.rpm
6e10a41120782afa633229384a3de9f5  6.2/en/os/SRPMS/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.src.rpm
feba1b51874808c6d59eae717adc116d  6.2/en/os/alpha/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.alpha.rpm
17f5ed6b597b38456faff7e8bd1eb828  6.2/en/os/i386/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.i386.rpm
e8c06fc3348e60a3053e7fad06dedeec  6.2/en/os/sparc/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-2.sparc.rpm
417343d579a7067720300adc8c99b38d  7.0/en/os/SRPMS/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-3.src.rpm
b728ad07c46c37221e98d5ee905efb2d  7.0/en/os/alpha/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-3.alpha.rpm
9fc78917546ab1bc41fb9951d47bf749  7.0/en/os/i386/icecast-1.3.8.beta2-3.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename

Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.

8. References:

Thanks to |CyRaX| for finding the problem and posting it
to Bugtraq. For more information please see
http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=2264