CVE-2009-1301
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 5.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 5.4% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1299)
- Published
- April 16, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1299 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
- mpg123 / mpg123
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34587(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34748
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20090405211856.41696433%40sunscreen.local
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=673696
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-15.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:093
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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