CVE-2004-2779
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2779
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2004-2779.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2004-2779
- Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
- Related
- Published
- 2018-02-20T21:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-16T06:20:56Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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).
- References
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- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647
- https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
- https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647