CVE-2008-2009 (GCVE-0-2008-2009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-16 06:54 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:41
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-02… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/30247 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public ?
2008-05-14 00:00
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