[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200904-13 ] Ventrilo: Denial of Service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-13

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Ventrilo: Denial of Service

Date: April 14, 2009

Bugs: #234819

ID: 200904-13

 

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Synopsis

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Ventrilo, allowing for a Denial

of Service.

 

Background

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Ventrilo is a Voice over IP group communication server.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin < 3.0.3 >= 3.0.3

 

Description

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Luigi Auriemma reported a NULL pointer dereference in Ventrilo when

processing packets with an invalid version number followed by another

packet.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to the server,

resulting in a crash.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Ventrilo users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose

">=media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin-3.0.3"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3680

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3680

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-13.xml

 

Concerns?

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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 ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5