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>> Libvorbis Audio Data Handling Buffer Overflow and DoS Vulnerabilities

Title : Libvorbis Audio Data Handling Buffer Overflow and DoS Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1510
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1419 - CVE-2008-1420 - CVE-2008-1423 - CVE-2008-2009
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-14


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Libvorbis, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by buffer and integer overflow, and infinite loop errors when processing malformed OGG audio files, which could be exploited to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system via a malicious file.

Affected Products

Libvorbis version 1.2.0 and prior

Solution

Apply patches :
https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14602
https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14598
https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14600
https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14604
https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14811

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1510
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0270.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Will Drewry (Google Security Team).

ChangeLog

2008-05-14 : Initial release

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