Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TagLib, possibly resulting in Denial of Service.

Announced

2012-06-22

Revised

2012-06-22

Access

remote

Bugs

#407673 #410953

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-16

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
media-libs/taglib	*	< 1.7.1	>= 1.7.1

Background

TagLib is a library for reading and editing audio meta data.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in TagLib:

• The "analyzeCurrent()" function in ape/apeproperties.cpp contains a division by zero error (CVE-2012-1107).
• The "parse()" function in inogg/xiphcomment.cpp contains an error when processing the "vendorLength" field (CVE-2012-1108).
• The "mid()" function in toolkit/tbytevector.cpp contains an integer overflow error (CVE-2012-1584).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to open a specially crafted OGG file with an application using TagLib, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All TagLib users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/taglib-1.7.1"

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

References

• CVE-2012-1107
• CVE-2012-1108
• CVE-2012-1584