CVE-2008-5824

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5824
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-02 19:30:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application 68k Audiofile 0.2.6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
0001915: crash when playing an msadpcm file with libasound - MantisBT af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 musicpd.org
Audio File Library "ms_adpcm_decode_block()" Buffer Overflow - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:003 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
#510205 - buffer overflow in libaudiofile - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
USN-912-1: Audio File Library vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - CVE id request: audiofile af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Audio File Library (libaudiofile) 'msadpcm.c' WAV File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-02-11Joshua BressersRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=479966 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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