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Shoutcast Long Backslash Admin.CGI Request Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Shoutcast is a freely available network music broadcast program. It is maintained and distributed by NullSoft.

It is possible for a remote user to crash the Shoutcast server. When a user connects to the administrative interface, and makes a request from the admin.cgi script for an arbitrarily long backslash string, the server reacts unpredictably. This type of malformed request can cause the server to become unstable and crash.