Microsoft security update for CVE-2004-2779
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 libid3tag 0.16.3-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 libid3tag 0.15.1b-33 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 0.15.1b-33 |
| — | Security Update | 0.16.3-7 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2004-2779
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.5 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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).
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2004-2779, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).