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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-1423 json

Integer overflow in a certain quantvals and quantlist calculation in Xiph.org libvorbis 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause…

published 2008-05-16 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1427

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.1%
EPSS 8.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in a certain quantvals and quantlist calculation in Xiph.org libvorbis 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file with a large virtual space for its codebook, which triggers a heap overflow.

Patch / fix

  • libvorbis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1
  • libvorbisidec Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1423

  • libvorbis RHEL 2.1 1.0rc2-9.el2
  • libvorbis RHEL 3 1:1.0-10.el3
  • libvorbis RHEL 4 1:1.1.0-3.el4_6.1
  • libvorbis RHEL 5 1:1.1.2-3.el5_1.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0271RHSA-2008:0270

  • libvorbis openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.3.7-1.6

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11009-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1423 updated

vorbis: integer oveflow caused by huge codebooks

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 libvorbis 1.0-10.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) libvorbis 1.1.2-3.el5_1.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0270
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0271
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 libvorbis 1.0-10.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 libvorbis 1.1.0-3.el4_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) libvorbis 1.1.2-3.el5_1.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 libvorbis 1.1.0-3.el4_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) libvorbis 1.1.2-3.el5_1.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0270
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0271
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 libvorbis 1.0-10.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 libvorbis 1.1.0-3.el4_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0270
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0271
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 libvorbis 1.0-10.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 libvorbis 1.1.0-3.el4_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0270
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0271

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Exploit prediction

8.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

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Sources

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