The id3_field_parse function in field.c in libid3tag 0.15.1b allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOM) via a crafted MP3 file.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The id3_field_parse function in field.c in libid3tag 0.15.1b allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (OOM) via a crafted MP3 file. (CVE-2017-11551)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for libid3tag fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2004-2779 CVE-2017-11551: Fixed     id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c, which previously     misparsed ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd     number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating     memory until OOM leading to DoS. (bsc#1081959     bsc#1081961)

  - CVE-2017-11550 CVE-2008-2109: Fixed the handling of     unknown encodings when parsing ID3 tags. (bsc#1081962     bsc#387731)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for libid3tag fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2004-2779 CVE-2017-11551: Fixed     id3_utf16_deserialize() in utf16.c, which previously     misparsed ID3v2 tags encoded in UTF-16 with an odd     number of bytes, triggering an endless loop allocating     memory until OOM leading to DoS. (bsc#1081959     bsc#1081961)

  - CVE-2017-11550 CVE-2008-2109: Fixed the handling of     unknown encodings when parsing ID3 tags. (bsc#1081962     bsc#387731)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
220244	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-11551	Nessus	Misc.	medium
108452	SUSE SLED12 Security Update : libid3tag (SUSE-SU-2018:0722-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108441	openSUSE Security Update : libid3tag (openSUSE-2018-277)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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