CVE-2008-2109

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    CVE-2008-2109

    Published: 7 May 2008Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564, 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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High