CVE-2008-1423

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in a certain quantvals and quantlist calculation in Xiph.org libvorbis 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file with a large virtual space for its codebook, which triggers a heap overflow.

Affected products

Xiph.Org Libvorbis: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30234
http://secunia.com/advisories/30237
http://secunia.com/advisories/30247
http://secunia.com/advisories/30259
http://secunia.com/advisories/30479
http://secunia.com/advisories/30581
http://secunia.com/advisories/30820
http://secunia.com/advisories/32946
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-09.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1591
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:102

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