CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-47466

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 22, 2025 | Modified: Jul 02, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
2.5 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

TagLib before 2.0 allows a segmentation violation and application crash during tag writing via a crafted WAV file in which an id3 chunk is the only valid chunk.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Taglib Taglib * 2.0 (excluding)
Taglib Ubuntu focal *
Taglib Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References