National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1584

Overview

Integer overflow in the mid function in toolkit/tbytevector.cpp in TagLib 1.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file header field in a media file, which triggers a large memory allocation.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/dcdf4fd954e3213c355746fa15b7480461972308

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/dcdf4fd954e3213c355746fa15b7480461972308

External Source: XF

Name: taglib-mid-dos(78909)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78909

External Source: BID

Name: 52290

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52290

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120326 Re: CVE-Request taglib vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/26/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120321 Re: CVE-Request taglib vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/11

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120305 Re: CVE-Request taglib vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/19

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201206-16

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-16.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49688

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49688

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48792

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48792

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48211

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48211

External Source: MLIST

Name: [pipermail] 20120305 multiple security vulnerabilities in taglib

Hyperlink:http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002191.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [pipermail] 20120304 multiple security vulnerabilities in taglib

Hyperlink:http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002186.html