Vulnerability CVE-2004-2779
Published: 2018-02-20

Description:
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).

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Underbit -> Libid3tag 

 References:
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/
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