| Name | CVE-2008-2009 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 482039, 669196 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libvorbis (PTS) | bookworm, bullseye | 1.3.7-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.3.7-2 | fixed |
| libvorbisidec (PTS) | bookworm, bullseye | 1.2.1+git20180316-7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.2.1+git20180316-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - libvorbisidec <no-dsa> (Minor issue, no dev-deps)
[etch] - libvorbis <not-affected> (actual vulnerability fixed pre-1.0)
[lenny] - libvorbis <not-affected> (actual vulnerability fixed pre-1.0)
additional hardening features have already been added to the unstable
packages that would be useful to have in stable, so proposing as spu/ospu