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▸ GLSA 200805-15 libid3tag: Denial of service this version unaffected normal remote 2008-05-14

A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in libid3tag.

Announced
2008-05-14
Revised
2008-05-14
Access
remote
Bugs
#210564
Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200805-15

Affected packages

PackageArchVulnerableUnaffected
media-libs/libid3tag*< 0.15.1b-r2>= 0.15.1b-r2

Background

libid3tag is an ID3 tag manipulation library.

Description

Kentaro Oda reported an infinite loop in the file field.c when parsing an MP3 file with an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0'.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MP3 file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libid3tag users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r2"

References