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CVE-2001-1229

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-1229 describes buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Icecast prior to version 1.3.9 and libshout prior to 1.0.4. These flaws allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code on affected systems. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (e.g., Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:icecast:icecast:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libshout:libshout:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0334 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Powertools 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Powertools 7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2001-1229

security flaw

Mar 13, 2001

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-063.html
Vendor Advisory
xiph.org / archives/icecast/0074.html
Vendor Advisory