THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-1423
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-1423

Enterprise Linux vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
8.1%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Enterprise Linux
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-05-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Redhat Enterprise Linux is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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