Executive Summary

Summary
Title Updated libid3tag packages fix denial of service vulnerability
Informations
Name MDVSA-2008:103 First vendor Publication 2008-05-19
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2008-05-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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

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

The updated packages have been patched to correct this.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103

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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