CVE-2017-12678

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-434

Description

In TagLib 1.11.1, the rebuildAggregateFrames function in id3v2framefactory.cpp has a pointer to cast vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted audio file.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
TagLib: 1.11.1

References

https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/cb9f07d9dcd791b63e622da43f7b232adaec0a9a
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/829
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/831
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00020.html
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/cb9f07d9dcd791b63e622da43f7b232adaec0a9a
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/829
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/831
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00020.html

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