4.3

CVE-2008-2009: canonical ubuntu_linux

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-2009
Published 16-05-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-2009 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 3.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.51%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2008:0271

Timeline

  1. 16-05-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.51%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.51% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.51%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian2 products
  • libvorbis< 1.2.0.dfsg-4
  • libvorbisidec< 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1
Canonical1 product
Xiph.org1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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