CVE-2009-1301

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negative encoding value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Mpg123: through 1.7.1; 0.59m, 0.59n, 0.59o, 0.59p, 0.59q, 0.59r (+7)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265342
http://secunia.com/advisories/34587
http://secunia.com/advisories/34748
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20090405211856.41696433%40sunscreen.local
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=673696
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:093
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265342
http://secunia.com/advisories/34587
http://secunia.com/advisories/34748

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