music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.16.0, the ID3v2 parser trusts the syncsafe tag-size field and allocates the complete tag body before checking whether the input contains the declared bytes. A truncated file containing only an ID3v2 header can request an allocation approaching 268 MiB; the allocation succeeds, the subsequent read reaches end of stream, the EndOfStreamError is caught internally, and the caller receives a normal metadata object. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-jjpr-9cvf-cq55 | music-metadata: ID3v2 tag size not validated before allocation, causing memory exhaustion DoS |
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0000
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| Description | music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.16.0, the ID3v2 parser trusts the syncsafe tag-size field and allocates the complete tag body before checking whether the input contains the declared bytes. A truncated file containing only an ID3v2 header can request an allocation approaching 268 MiB; the allocation succeeds, the subsequent read reaches end of stream, the EndOfStreamError is caught internally, and the caller receives a normal metadata object. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0. | |
| Title | music-metadata: ID3v2 tag size not validated before allocation, causing memory exhaustion DoS | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-789 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-08T19:00:24.725Z
Reserved: 2026-10-07T21:07:54.988Z
Link: CVE-2026-107388
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-08T19:17:01.683
Modified: 2026-10-08T20:46:35.260
Link: CVE-2026-107388
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Github GHSA