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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1686 Detail

Current Description

Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters and Annodex Plugins for Firefox, xine-lib before 1.1.12, and many other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2008-April/006636.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29672 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29835 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29845 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29854 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29866 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29878 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29880 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29881 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29882 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29898 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30104 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30117 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30119 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30337 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30353 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30358 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30581 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30717 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31393 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml CVE, MITRE
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.460836 CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185 CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185&group_id=9655 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1584 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1585 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1586 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:092 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:093 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:094 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:124 CVE, MITRE
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/news.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491009/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28665 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019875 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-3 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1187/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1228/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1268/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1269/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1300/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1301/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1302/references CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41684 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10026 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00244.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00287.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00357.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1686
NVD Published Date:
04/08/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE