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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-1686 json

Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters…

published 2008-04-08 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1687

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.5%
EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters and Annodex Plugins for Firefox, xine-lib before 1.1.12, and many other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer.

Patch / fix

  • speex Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2~beta2-1
  • libfishsound Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.0-2.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1686

  • speex RHEL 4 1.0.4-4.el4_6.1
  • speex RHEL 5 1.0.5-4.el5_1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0235

  • gstreamer-plugins-good openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.5-2.1
  • vorbis-tools openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.2-1.6

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10829-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11503-1

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-2008-1686 updated

libfishsound: insufficient boundary checks

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) speex 1.0.5-4.el5_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 speex 1.0.4-4.el4_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) speex 1.0.5-4.el5_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 speex 1.0.4-4.el4_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) speex 1.0.5-4.el5_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 speex 1.0.4-4.el4_6.1
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 speex 1.0.4-4.el4_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0235

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Exploit prediction

6.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% 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

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.