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SUSE: CVE-2004-2779: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/20/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/26/2018
Modified
04/26/2018

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).

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag0
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag0-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-libid3tag0-debuginfo-32bit

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:0715-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0722-1
  • CVE-2004-2779

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