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CVE-2008-2109

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2109 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the libid3tag 0.15.0b library, specifically within the field.c component. Attackers can trigger an infinite loop and high CPU consumption by providing a specially crafted ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST field ending in a null character. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and requires no authentication or complex attack vectors, with the primary impact being system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.15.0bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:media-libs:libid3tag:0.15.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0727 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2109Low

libid3tag: infinite loop in ID3_FIELD_TYPE_STRINGLIST parsing

Jan 12, 2008

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/30173
secunia.com / advisories/30182
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200805-15.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42271
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00159.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mars.org / mailman/public/mad-dev/2008-January/001366.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/29210