Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1365-3 id3lib3.8.3 -- programming error

Date Reported:
02 Oct 2007
Affected Packages:
id3lib3.8.3
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 438540.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4460.
More information:

Nikolaus Schulz discovered that a programming error in id3lib, an ID3 Tag Library, may lead to denial of service through symlink attacks.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.3-4.1sarge1.

Due to a technical limitation in the archive management scripts the fix for the stable distribution (etch) can only be released in a few days.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.3-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your id3lib3.8.3 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/id3lib3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/id3lib3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/id3lib3.8.3_3.8.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/libid3-3.8.3-dev_3.8.3-4.1sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.