SB2005041601 - Denial of service in libid3tag
Published: April 16, 2005
Security Bulletin ID
SB2005041601
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Uncontrolled memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2004-2779)
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.