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TITLE:
GNUMP3d Authentication Bypass Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27848

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27848/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
GNUMP3d 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6011/

DESCRIPTION:
James has reported a security issue in GNUMP3d, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the improper enforcing of
password-based authentication and can be exploited to gain access to
the streaming server without a valid username and password.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 3.0.

SOLUTION:
Do not rely on the password protection. The vendor has removed the
password protection option in version 3.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported in Gentoo Bugzilla by James.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GNU:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/ChangeLog

Gentoo Bugzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193132

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