CVE-2008-4201

N/A Unknown

Published: September 24, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function (frontend/main.c) in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 (MP4) file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/48349

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/32006

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/32661

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/6

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31219

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2601

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899