NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting taglib package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-TAGLIB-10598365
  • published4 Jul 2025
  • disclosed22 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 May 2025

CVE-2023-47466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference through the tag writing process. An attacker can cause a segmentation violation and application crash by providing a crafted WAV file where an id3 chunk is the only valid chunk.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1