CVE-2008-4201

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function (frontend/main.c) in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 (MP4) file.

Affected products

Audiocoding Faad2: through 2.6.1; 1.1, 2.0-rc1, 2.0-rc2, 2.0-rc3, 2.5

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445
http://osvdb.org/48349
http://secunia.com/advisories/32006
http://secunia.com/advisories/32661
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml
http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html
http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31219
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2601

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