{"id":"DEBIAN-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":"2026-09-15T07:00:34.488761428Z","published":"2018-02-20T21:29:00.207Z","upstream":["CVE-2004-2779"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-2779"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libid3tag","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/libid3tag?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.15.1b-5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2779.json"}},{"package":{"name":"libid3tag","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/libid3tag?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.15.1b-5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2779.json"}},{"package":{"name":"libid3tag","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/libid3tag?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.15.1b-5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2779.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}