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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-2009 json

Xiph.org libvorbis before 1.0 does not properly check for underpopulated Huffman trees, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…

published 2008-05-16 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2007

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Xiph.org libvorbis before 1.0 does not properly check for underpopulated Huffman trees, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OGG file that triggers memory corruption during execution of the _make_decode_tree function.

Patch / fix

  • libvorbis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.0.dfsg-4
  • libvorbisidec Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2009

  • libvorbis RHEL 2.1 1.0rc2-9.el2

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0271

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-2008-2009 updated

vorbis: insufficient validation of Huffman tree causing memory corruption in _make_decode_tree()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 libvorbis 1.0rc2-9.el2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0271

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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