CVE-2008-2009

libvorbis < 1.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted OGG File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-861-1
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444443
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020029
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510/references
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30247
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42521

Scores

EPSS 0.0351
EPSS Percentile 88.0%

Details

Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 8.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 8.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 9.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 9.10
xiph.org/libvorbis 1.0 beta4 (3 CPE variants)
Published May 16, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026