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CVE-2008-2009

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2009 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Xiph.org libvorbis versions prior to 1.0, affecting products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash a system by providing a specially crafted OGG file that triggers memory corruption during Huffman tree decoding. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, requiring no authentication. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xiph.org:libvorbis:1.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xiph.org:libvorbis:1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xiph.org:libvorbis:1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0351 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: libvorbis-0:1.0rc2-9.el2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2009Important

vorbis: insufficient validation of Huffman tree causing memory corruption in _make_decode_tree()

May 14, 2008

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30247
Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42521
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0271.html
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-861-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1510/references
Third Party Advisory