CVE-2009-1438

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the CSoundFile::ReadMed function (src/load_med.cpp) in libmodplug before 0.8.6, as used in gstreamer-plugins, TTPlayer, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a MED file with a crafted (1) song comment or (2) song name, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as exploited in the wild in August 2008.

Affected products

Konstanty Bialkowski libmodplug: through 0.8.5; 0.8, 0.8.4

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266913
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://modplug-xmms.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/modplug-xmms/libmodplug/src/load_med.cpp?r1=1.1&amp%3Br2=1.2
http://osvdb.org/53801
http://secunia.com/advisories/34797
http://secunia.com/advisories/34930
http://secunia.com/advisories/35026
http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
http://secunia.com/advisories/35736
http://secunia.com/advisories/36158
http://secunia.com/advisories/36183
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-07.xml

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