CVE-2004-2779

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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).

Affected products

Underbit Libid3Tag: through 0.15.1b

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647
https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647
https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/

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