CVE-2004-2779

Summary

CVECVE-2004-2779
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-20 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-19 16:15:00 UTC
Descriptionid3_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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Underbit Libid3tag All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#304913 - libid3tag0: endless loop until OOM while parsing ID3v2 tag - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug 162647 – [id3demux] Consumes all available memory playing a tagged mp3 MISC bugzilla.gnome.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
404 | Debian Sources MISC sources.debian.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 901697 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libid3tag (7261)

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