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
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taglib | Taglib | * | 2.0 (excluding) |
| Taglib | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Taglib | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Taglib | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/dfa33bec0806cbb45785accb8cc6c2048a7d40cf
- https://github.com/taglib/taglib/compare/v1.13.1...v2.0
- https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/1163
- https://github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/1164
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00022.html
- https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/1163