CVE-2008-2009 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2009?

CVE-2008-2009 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 May 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2009?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Xiph.org Libvorbis.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2009?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2008-2009 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2009 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2009, GHSA-m3p3-975g-rc2v.