CVE-2004-2779 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote Yes
Type Denial of service
Description
id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c in libid3tag through 0.15.1b misparses ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating memory until an OOM condition is reached, leading to denial-of-service (DoS).
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-633 lib32-libid3tag 0.15.1a-1 0.15.1b-1 Medium Fixed FS#57601
AVG-632 libid3tag 0.15.1b-5 0.15.1b-6 Medium Fixed FS#57601
References
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/