{"id":"CVE-2009-1301","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2009-1301","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:41:18.036Z","title":"Integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negative…","description":"Integer signedness error in the store_id3_text function in the ID3v2 code in mpg123 before 1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ID3 tag with a negative encoding value.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.","published":"2009-04-16T15:12:57.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:06:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":10,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-189"],"affected":["mpg123/mpg123"],"epss":{"score":0.05437,"percentile":0.92664,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265342","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34587","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34748","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20090405211856.41696433%40sunscreen.local","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=673696","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-15.xml","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:093","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265342","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34587","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34748","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20090405211856.41696433%40sunscreen.local","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=673696","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-15.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:093","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34381","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0936","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1301","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}