CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-2779
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c in libid3tag through 0.15.1b misparses ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating memory until an OOM condition is reached, leading to denial-of-service (DoS).
Affected configurations
• underbit libid3tag (<= 0.15.1b)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/ Patch, Third Party Advisory