CVE-2008-5824

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file.

Affected products

68K Audiofile: 0.2.6

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510205
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1915
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/30/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/33273
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33066
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-912-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0005
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510205
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1915
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/30/1

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