CVE-2008-2009

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
Xiph.Org Libvorbis: 1.0-beta4, 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2

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
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

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