{"id":"CVE-2004-2779","details":"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).","modified":"2026-04-16T06:20:56.367050284Z","published":"2018-02-20T21:29:00Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2018:0715-1","SUSE-SU-2018:0722-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10948-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304913"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162647"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}