CVE-2008-1686

Published: 08 April 2008

Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters and Annodex Plugins for Firefox, xine-lib before 1.1.12, and many other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header structure containing a negative offset, which is used to dereference a function pointer.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
gst-plugins-good0.10
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (0.10.8)
Patches:
Vendor: http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:092
Upstream: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/ext/speex/gstspeexdec.c?r1=1.40&r2=1.41
libfishsound
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (0.7.0-2.2)
speex
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (1.2beta3.2)
Patches:
Vendor: http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:094
Vendor: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html
sweep
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (0.9.3)
vlc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Patches:
Other: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/c1c81073e661f7d80197711ab11753e1e170b44c
vorbis-tools
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Patches:
Vendor: http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:093
Upstream: https://trac.xiph.org/changeset/14701
xine-lib
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (1.1.12)
Patches:
Other: http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib/?cmd=changeset;node=d8e1305c13820b82d896f7bc77d196b9c9645dd6;style=raw
xmms-speex
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand 
upstream libfishsound should have a patch
filed Debian bug #480059 for vorbis-tools (to hopefully get via
merge in intrepid)
Mandriva reference is a regression bug (and fix) for xine-lib

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