National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2663
Original release date:08/04/2009
Last revised:09/09/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
libvorbis before r16182, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.2 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .ogg file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
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 unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2142
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-45.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8445
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8288
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8279
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516259
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500254
External Source: XF
Name: libvorbis-codec-dos(52397)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2223
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-825-1
External Source: BID
Name: 36018
External Source: BID
Name: 35927
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 266148
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36463
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36263
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36230
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36126
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9506
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:014
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9506
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)