Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-36950.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-36950
Upstream
Published
2018-02-20T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:12:19.365373Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2004-2779 affecting package libid3tag for versions less than 0.16.3-7
Details

id3utf16deserialize() 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).

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libid3tag

Package

Name
libid3tag
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libid3tag

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.16.3-7

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-36950.json"