CVE-2004-2779: Underbit LIBID3TAG

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Underbit LIBID3TAG: up to and including 0.15.1b

Published 2018-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.