4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-2009

Published: 16/05/2008 Updated: 29/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Xiph.org libvorbis prior to 1.0 does not properly check for underpopulated Huffman trees, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OGG file that triggers memory corruption during execution of the _make_decode_tree function.

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It was discovered that libvorbis did not correctly handle ogg files with underpopulated Huffman trees If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted ogg file with an application that uses libvorbis, an attacker could cause a denial of service (CVE-2008-2009) ...
Debian Bug report logs - #669196 libvorbisidec: multiple longstanding unfixed security issues in libvorbis Package: libvorbisidec; Maintainer for libvorbisidec is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debianorg> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:21:01 UTC ...
Debian Bug report logs - #482039 libvorbis0a: potential security patch, needs review Package: libvorbis0a; Maintainer for libvorbis0a is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Source for libvorbis0a is src:libvorbis (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Steffen Joeris <steffenjoeris@skolelinuxd ...