CVE-2008-2009

Libvorbis vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Xiph.Org

Affected product

Libvorbis

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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