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CVE-2008-1686

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters and Annodex Plugins for Firefox, xine-lib before 1.1.12, and many other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer.

Affected products

• Xine-Lib: through 1.1.11.1; 0.9.8, 0.9.13, 0.99, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 (+6)
• Xiph Libfishsound: through 0.9.0; 0.5.41, 0.5.42, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3 (+3)
• Xiph Speex: through 1.1.12; 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+10)

References

• http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
• http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2008-April/006636.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29672
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29727
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29835
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29845
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29854
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29866
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29878
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29880
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29881

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