National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4201
Original release date:09/24/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
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
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2601
External Source: BID
Name: 31219
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080924 Re: CVE id request: fraud2
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200811-03
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32661
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32006
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 48349
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899