CVE-2008-2109

Published: May 7, 2008Modified: Apr 23, 2026

5.0

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

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 (1)

Products: Media Libs: Libid3tag

Media Libs

1 product

Libid3tag

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Media Libs Libid3tag	Version 0.15.0b

References (18)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/30173

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/30182

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564