CVE-2008-1686
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 6.5% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1687)
- Published
- April 8, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1687 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xine / xine-lib
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / libfishsound
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
- xiph / speex
References
- http://blog.kfish.org/2008/04/release-libfishsound-091.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00001.html
- http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/2008-April/006636.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29672(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29727(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29835(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29845(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29854(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29866(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29878(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29880(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29881(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29882(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29898(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30104(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30117(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30119(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30337
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30353(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30358(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30581(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31393(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-17.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.460836
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592185&group_id=9655
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1584(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1585(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1586
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:092
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:093
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:094
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:124
- http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/news.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0235.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491009/100/0/threaded
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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