FKIE_CVE-2008-2009

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-05-16 12:54 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:52
Severity
Summary
Xiph.org libvorbis before 1.0 does not properly check for underpopulated Huffman trees, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OGG file that triggers memory corruption during execution of the _make_decode_tree function.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30247Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510/referencesThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42521Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/30247Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510/referencesThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42521Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xiph.org libvorbis 1.0
xiph.org libvorbis 1.0
xiph.org libvorbis 1.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 8.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 8.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 9.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 9.10
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