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medium 5.0

CVE-2008-2109 json

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…

published 2008-05-07 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2106

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.3%
EPSS 7.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • libid3tag Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.15.1b-8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2109

  • 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 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-2008-2109 updated

libid3tag: infinite loop in ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST parsing

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

7.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • mars.org http://www.mars.org/mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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