National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3231
Original release date:07/18/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
xine-lib before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OGG file, as demonstrated by playing lol-ffplay.ogg with xine.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 30699
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7512
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7572
External Source: XF
Name: xine-ogg-dos(44040)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020703
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080713 CVE requests: crashers by zzuf
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:020
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2382
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=619869
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31827
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004