CVE-2008-2009

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Per http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis/CHANGES, 1.0 is the first stable release of libvorbis. No version of libvorbis before 1.0 has been confirmed at this time.

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.

Per http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis/CHANGES, 1.0 is the first stable release of libvorbis. No version of libvorbis before 1.0 has been confirmed at this time.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-05-16 12:54:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-29 00:57:00

Affected Software

Xiph.org libvorbis 1.0 Beta 4

1.0

Xiph.org libvorbis 1.0 Release Candidate 1

1.0

Xiph.org libvorbis 1.0 Release Candidate 2

1.0

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

8.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10

8.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 9.04

9.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 9.10

9.10

References

30247

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2008:0271

Third Party Advisory

1020029

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

USN-861-1

Third Party Advisory

ADV-2008-1510

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

libvorbis-makedecodetree-dos(42521)

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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