CVE-2008-4201
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.7%EU EUVD
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.
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-119
- EPSS score
- 6.7% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4184)
- Published
- September 24, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4184 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- audiocoding / faad2
- audiocoding / faad2
- audiocoding / faad2
- audiocoding / faad2
- audiocoding / faad2
- audiocoding / faad2
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view(Exploit)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445
- http://osvdb.org/48349
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32006(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32661(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-03.xml
- http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html
- http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31219
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2601(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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