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CVE-2026-107388 - music-metadata: ID3v2 tag size not validated before allocation, causing memory exhaustion DoS

CVE ID :CVE-2026-107388
Published : Oct. 8, 2026, 7:17 p.m. | 29 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 6.2 | MEDIUM
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