CVE-2008-2109
N/A
Published: May 7, 2008 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLIBID3TAG
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
Description
field.c in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field that ends in '\0', which triggers an infinite loop.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-15.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:103Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42271Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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