CVE-2008-2109 Information

Description

field.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in ‘\0’ which triggers an infinite loop.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564 http://secunia.com/advisories/30173 http://secunia.com/advisories/30182 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103 http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html