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.
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