Bug 1561983 – CVE-2004-2779 libid3tag: id3_utf16_deserialize() misparses ID3v2 tags with an odd number of bytes resulting in an endless loop

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Bug 1561983 - (CVE-2004-2779) CVE-2004-2779 libid3tag: id3_utf16_deserialize() misparses ID3v2 tags with an odd number of bytes resulting in an endless loop

Summary:	CVE-2004-2779 libid3tag: id3_utf16_deserialize() misparses ID3v2 tags with an...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2004-2779

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1579003 1561985 1561986
Blocks:	1561988
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Reported:	2018-03-29 05:55 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-07-31 17:44 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-29 05:55:15 EDT

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 05:55:38 EDT

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]

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