suse · CVE-2004-2779

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:31:30 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:46:45 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2004-2779 severity moderate: SUSE including 12 source package names (libid3tag, libid3tag-0.15.1b-132.3.1, …), 30 product×package rows across 21 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3, … (21 product lines)): Fixed 28, Known Not Affected 2.

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).

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