Bug 1561983 (CVE-2004-2779)

Summary:	CVE-2004-2779 libid3tag: id3_utf16_deserialize() misparses ID3v2 tags with an odd number of bytes resulting in an endless loop
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	amigadave, mmaslano, tmz
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Bug Depends On:	1561985, 1561986, 1579003
Bug Blocks:	1561988

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-29 09:55:15 UTC

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).

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-29 09:55:38 UTC

Created libid3tag tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561985]


Created mingw-libid3tag tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561986]