Bug 445812 (CVE-2008-2109)

Summary:	CVE-2008-2109 libid3tag: infinite loop in ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST parsing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan, hdegoede, tmz
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2109
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Bug Depends On:	445813, 445814, 445815
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-05-09 09:31:08 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2109 to the following vulnerability:

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.

Refences:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564
http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-09 09:33:14 UTC

Reproducer can be found in Gentoo bug, patch in report sent to mad-dev list.

Package is in Fedora and EPEL5.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-05-09 17:49:39 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-6.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-05-09 17:54:25 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-05-09 17:55:37 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-05-13 15:24:21 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-6.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-05-14 21:32:19 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-05-14 22:13:19 UTC

libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:29:03 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3976
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3757