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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:42:38 +0100
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Zubin Mithra <zubin.mithra@...il.com>,
	Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>,
	Dhanesh k <dhanesh1428@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE-Request taglib vulnerabilities

Zubin Mithra wrote:
> [...]
> The issues which are present in the latest "release" but not in the current
> development head were :-
> 
> [3] Lack of sanity checks of fields which were read, and were used for
> allocating memory; crafted files would lead of application crash.

Not an issue according to upstream:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002187.html

> [4] A one bit change in a working ogg file would cause a thread to loop
> infinitely.

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002191.html
https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/b3646a07348ffa276ea41a9dae03ddc63ea6c532

cu
Ludwig

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