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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2009 Detail

Description

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.


Evaluator Description

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.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30247 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42521 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2009
NVD Published Date:
05/16/2008
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.