Executive Summary

Summary
Title libid3tag: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200805-15 First vendor Publication 2008-05-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-05-14
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in libid3tag.

Background

libid3tag is an ID3 tag manipulation library.

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

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2109 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2109

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

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for libid3tag MDVSA-2008:103 (libid3tag)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_103.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for libid3tag FEDORA-2008-3757
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3757_libid3tag_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for libid3tag FEDORA-2008-3874
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3874_libid3tag_fc7.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for libid3tag FEDORA-2008-3976
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3976_libid3tag_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200805-15 (libid3tag)
File : nvt/glsa_200805_15.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44921 libid3tag field.c ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST Field CPU Consumption DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3757.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3874.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3976.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200805-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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