CVE-2012-1584: Scott Wheeler Taglib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the mid function in toolkit/tbytevector.cpp in TagLib 1.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file header field in a media file, which triggers a large memory allocation.

Affected products

• Scott Wheeler Taglib: up to and including 1.7; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; …

Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.