CVE-2008-1686

N/A Unknown

Published: April 08, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2008-April/006636.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29672

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29727

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29835

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29845

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29854

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29866

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29878

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29880

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29881

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29882

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29898

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30104

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30117

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30119

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30337

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/30353

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30358

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30581

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30717

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/31393

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.460836

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185&group_id=9655

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1584

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1585

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1586

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:092

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:093

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:094

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:124

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/news.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491009/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28665

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019875

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-611-3

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1187/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1228/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1268/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1269/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1300/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1301/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1302/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41684

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10026

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00244.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00287.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00357.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html