CVE-2009-1301: MPG123

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negative encoding value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• MPG123 MPG123: up to and including 1.7.1; version 0.59m only; version 0.59n only; version 0.59o only; version 0.59p only; version 0.59q only; …

Published 2009-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.