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high 7.5

CVE-2004-2779 json

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, trigger…

published 2018-02-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2769

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

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).

Patch / fix

  • libid3tag Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.15.1b-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2779

  • libid3tag SLED 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP2, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 +3 more 0.15.1b-184.3.1
  • libid3tag SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 0.15.1b-132.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0722-1SUSE-SU-2018:0715-1

  • libid3tag Azure Linux 3.0 0.16.3-7

azure linux advisories AZL-36950

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • libid3tag Arch Linux 0.15.1b-6

arch linux advisories AVG-632

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-2779 updated cvss 3.3

libid3tag: id3_utf16_deserialize() misparses ID3v2 tags with an odd number of bytes resulting in an endless loop

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libid3tag
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libid3tag
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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