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CVE-2008-4201

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2008-11-12	faad2 -- heap overflow vulnerability

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CVE-2008-4201 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-4201
Phase	Assigned(20080923)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view
MLIST	[oss-security] 20080924 Re: CVE id request: fraud2
CONFIRM	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899
CONFIRM	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445
CONFIRM	http://www.audiocoding.com/archive.html
CONFIRM	http://www.audiocoding.com/patch/main_overflow.diff
GENTOO	GLSA-200811-03
BID	31219
OSVDB	48349
SECUNIA	32661
SECUNIA	32006
VUPEN	ADV-2008-2601