CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2109
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
field.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0', which triggers an infinite loop.
Affected configurations
• media-libs libid3tag 0.15.0b
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30173 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30182 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30173 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30182 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html www.redhat.com