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<glsa id="200805-15">
  <title>libid3tag: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in libid3tag.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libid3tag</product>
  <announced>2008-05-14</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-05-14</revised>
  <bug>210564</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/libid3tag" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.15.1b-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.15.1b-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    libid3tag is an ID3 tag manipulation library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Kentaro Oda reported an infinite loop in the file field.c when parsing
    an MP3 file with an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0'.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted MP3
    file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All libid3tag users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2109">CVE-2008-2109</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-13T20:49:10Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-05-13T20:57:48Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-05-13T21:27:22Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>
