Vulnerability CVE-2008-2109
Published: 2008-05-07   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-DesignError

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
Media-libs -> Libid3tag 

 References:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564
http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42271
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/30182
http://secunia.com/advisories/30173
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