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CVE-2008-2109

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Media-Libs Libid3Tag: 0.15.0b

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564
• 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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29210
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210564
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30173
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30182

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