CVE-2008-2109

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-2109 · Published 07/05/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2109 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting libid3tag (media-libs).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 7.3%, higher than 94.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libid3tag media-libs	`= 0.15.0b`	No fix yet

Description

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

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/30173
secunia.com/advisories/30182
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml
mandriva.com/security/advisories
mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/29210
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271
redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html

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