CVE-2012-1584

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the mid function in toolkit/tbytevector.cpp in TagLib 1.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file header field in a media file, which triggers a large memory allocation.

Affected products

Scott Wheeler Taglib: through 1.7; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4 (+5)

References

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002186.html
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002191.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48211
http://secunia.com/advisories/48792
http://secunia.com/advisories/49688
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-16.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/19
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/26/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52290
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78909
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/dcdf4fd954e3213c355746fa15b7480461972308

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