Infinite loop in libid3tag - CVE-2008-2109
Published: April 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11782
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-2109
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in field.c due to CPU consumption. A remote attacker can trigger infinite loop and cause the service to crash via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in ''.
The weakness exists in field.c due to CPU consumption. A remote attacker can trigger infinite loop and cause the service to crash via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in ''.
Affected software
libid3tag
Gentoo Linux
libid3tag (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
libid3tag (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2008-2109
Install update from vendor's website.
libid3tag (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 0.15.1b-r6, 0.15.1b-r7