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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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      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2008-2009.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.