SB2005041601 - Denial of service in libid3tag
Published: April 16, 2005
Security Bulletin ID
SB2005041601
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Uncontrolled memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2004-2779)
CWE-ID: CWE-789 - Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the id3_utf16_deserialize() function due to the improper parsing of ID3v2 tags. A local attacker can submit a specially crafted ID3v2 tag with an odd number of bytes, trigger improper memory allocation and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.