MSRC_CVE-2004-2779

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2018-02-02 00:00 - Updated: 2025-03-14 00:00
Summary
id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c in libid3tag through 0.15.1b misparses ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating memory until an OOM condition is reached, leading to denial-of-service (DoS).

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