CVE-2004-2779 Denial of service in n/a
A flaw in libid3tag allows attackers to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion by providing malformed UTF-16 ID3v2 tags.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2004-2779?
CVE-2004-2779 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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).
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2779?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Underbit Libid3tag.
How do I fix CVE-2004-2779?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-2779 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-2779 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-36950, AZL-7261, DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2779, GHSA-3qq6-672j-jx3v.