# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. # # Filename: package/.../libid3tag/libid3tag-0.15.1b-CVE-2008-2109.patch # Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project # # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. # # This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the # patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license # as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms # of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later # version. # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2109 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. --- libid3tag-0.15.1b/field.c.orig 2011-06-02 22:29:39.028006695 +0200 +++ libid3tag-0.15.1b/field.c 2011-06-02 22:30:35.064005391 +0200 @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ end = *ptr + length; - while (end - *ptr > 0) { + while (end - *ptr > 0 && **ptr != '\0') { ucs4 = id3_parse_string(ptr, end - *ptr, *encoding, 0); if (ucs4 == 0) goto fail;