CVE-2008-2109 (GCVE-0-2008-2109)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-05-07 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30173
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30182
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.htmlExploit
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/30173
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/30182
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.htmlExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html
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