GLSA 200805-15: libid3tag: Denial of Service

Severity:normal
Title:libid3tag: Denial of Service
Date:05/14/2008
Bugs: #210564
ID:200805-15

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in libid3tag.

Background

libid3tag is an ID3 tag manipulation library.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
media-libs/libid3tag < 0.15.1b-r2 >= 0.15.1b-r2 All supported architectures

Description

Kentaro Oda reported an infinite loop in the file field.c when parsing an MP3 file with an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0'.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MP3 file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libid3tag users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml

Concerns?

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License

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