How do you authenticate an Icecast?
Authenticating listeners via the URL method involves Icecast, when a listener connects, issuing requests to a web server and checking the response headers. If a certain header is sent back then the listener connecting is allowed to continue, if not, an error is sent back to the listener.
What is Icecast mount point?
The Basics. Each Icecast server can house multiple broadcasts (or mountpoints) each containing a separate stream of content. A ‘mountpoint’ is a unique name on your server identifying a particular stream – it looks like a filename, such as ‘/stream. ogg’. A listener can only listen to a single mountpoint at a time.
How do I connect to an Icecast server?
Broadcast audio with Icecast2
- Install Icecast2.
- Edit Icecast2 configuration. Open the file /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml as root in an editor.
- Edit defaults. Open the /etc/default/icecast2 file as root in an editor.
- Start/Stop Icecast.
How does Icecast work?
A Source Client (i.e. IceS, RoarAudio, …) connects to a mountpoint on the Icecast server and sends audio or video data to it. Listeners connect to the mountpoint and Icecast send the stream to them. The Icecast server will be the place where all listeners of your stream will connect.
What type of vulnerability is Icecast?
HTTP header buffer overflow vulnerability
Description. The remote web server runs Icecast version 2.0. 1 or older. Such versions are affected by an HTTP header buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with the privileges of the Icecast server process.
What protocol does Icecast use?
The Icecast server is capable of streaming audio content as Opus or Vorbis over standard HTTP, video as WebM or Theora over HTTP, and MP3, AAC, and NSV over the SHOUTcast protocol. Theora, AAC, and NSV are only supported in version 2.2. 0 and newer.
Is Icecast a TCP or UDP?
TCP
Icecast and SHOUTcast both use TCP for both the source streams and streaming to end clients.