CVE-2008-2009

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    CVE-2008-2009

    Published: 16 May 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/30247, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510/references, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42521, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High