SUSE-SU-2018:0715-1

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    SUSE-SU-2018:0715-1

    Published: 16 Mar 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for libid3tag

    Details: This update for libid3tag fixes the following issues: - CVE-2004-2779 CVE-2017-11551: Fixed id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c, which previously misparsed ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating memory until OOM leading to DoS. (bsc#1081959 bsc#1081961) - CVE-2017-11550 CVE-2008-2109: Fixed the handling of unknown encodings when parsing ID3 tags. (bsc#1081962 bsc#387731)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20180715-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081959, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081961, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081962, https://bugzilla.suse.com/387731, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-2779, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2109, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11550, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11551

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libid3tag

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libid3tag&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.15.1b-132.3.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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