It was found that when the UID and GID were changed in the <changeowner> section of the /etc/icecast.xml file, the supplementary groups were left in place. This could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges if the <changeowner> configuration was used. The following fix was added to icecast version 2.4.0: In case of <changeowner> only UID and GID were changed, supplementary groups were left in place. This is a potential security issue only if <changeowner> is used. New behaviour is to set UID, GID and set supplementary groups based on the UID Even in case of icecast remaining in supplementary group 0 this "only" gives it things like access to files that are owned by group 0 and according to their umask. This is obviously bad, but not as bad as UID 0 with all its other special rights. It's a security issue and we fix immediately and recommend users to update. References: http://icecast.org/news/icecast-release-2_4_0/ https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/19137/ http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/802
Created icecast tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1168147] Affects: epel-5 [bug 1168148] Affects: epel-6 [bug 1168149]
icecast-2.4.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
icecast-2.4.1-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
icecast-2.4.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
icecast-2.4.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
icecast-2.4.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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