Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-2779 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Underbit Libid3Tag 0.15.0B/0.15.1B

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
underbit
CWE-399
nessus

Summary

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).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Underbit
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-E06468B832.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2004-2779 and CVE-2017-11550 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-04-10
    plugin id108919
    published2018-04-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108919
    titleFedora 27 : libid3tag (2018-e06468b832)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-e06468b832.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(108919);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2004-2779", "CVE-2017-11550");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-e06468b832");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : libid3tag (2018-e06468b832)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Security fix for CVE-2004-2779 and CVE-2017-11550
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
    Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
    possible without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e06468b832"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected libid3tag package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libid3tag");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/07/31");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/09");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^27([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 27", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC27", reference:"libid3tag-0.15.1b-26.fc27")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : rpm_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libid3tag");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2018-0722-1.NASL
    descriptionThis 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.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id108452
    published2018-03-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108452
    titleSUSE SLED12 Security Update : libid3tag (SUSE-SU-2018:0722-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2018-277.NASL
    descriptionThis 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.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-03-19
    plugin id108441
    published2018-03-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108441
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : libid3tag (openSUSE-2018-277)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-2926FD93F4.NASL
    descriptionFix CVE-2017-11550 and CVE-2004-2779 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-03
    plugin id120309
    published2019-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120309
    titleFedora 28 : mingw-libid3tag (2018-2926fd93f4)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-D187B44F75.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2004-2779 and CVE-2017-11550 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-03
    plugin id120812
    published2019-01-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120812
    titleFedora 28 : libid3tag (2018-d187b44f75)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-4E26C06AEF.NASL
    descriptionFix CVE-2017-11550 and CVE-2004-2779 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-04-24
    plugin id109286
    published2018-04-24
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109286
    titleFedora 27 : mingw-libid3tag (2018-4e26c06aef)