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<glsa id="200803-22">
  <title>LIVE555 Media Server: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in LIVE555 Media
    Server.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">live</product>
  <announced>2008-03-13</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-03-13</revised>
  <bug>204065</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-plugins/live" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2008.02.08</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2008.02.08</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    LIVE555 Media Server is a set of libraries for multimedia streaming.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Luigi Auriemma reported a signedness error in the
    parseRTSPRequestString() function when processing short RTSP queries.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RTSP query to the
    vulnerable server, resulting in a crash.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All LIVE555 Media Server users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-plugins/live-2008.02.08"</code>
    <p>
    Note: Due to ABI changes, applications built against LIVE555 Media
    Server such as VLC or MPlayer should also be rebuilt.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6036">CVE-2007-6036</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-08T16:52:57Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-11T12:26:32Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-03-11T12:27:04Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
