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CVE-2012-1108

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1108 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in TagLib 1.7 and earlier, specifically within the parse function in ogg/xiphcomment.cpp, affecting products like scott_wheeler taglib. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by providing a crafted vendorLength field in an Ogg file, leading to a crash. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium complexity and results in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0310 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: taglib

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1108Moderate

taglib: ogg file with vendorLength field modification causes crash

Mar 4, 2012

References

mail.kde.org / pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002186.html
mail.kde.org / pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002191.html
osvdb.org / 79813
secunia.com / advisories/48211
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48792
secunia.com / advisories/49688
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/73665
github.com / taglib/taglib/commit/b3646a07348ffa276ea41a9dae03ddc63ea6c532
ExploitPatch
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-16.xml
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/19
securityfocus.com / bid/52284