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CVE-2004-2779
high
Description
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).
References
https://sources.debian.org/patches/libid3tag/0.15.1b-13/10_utf16.dpatch/