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GNUMP3d Authentication Bypass Security Issue Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27848  
Release Date: 2007-11-28

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GNUMP3d 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-6130 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


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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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. GNUMP3d Insecure Temporary File Creation and Directory Traversal
2. GNUMP3d Cross-Site Scripting and Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities


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