liboggplay — security advisory
The oggplay_data_handle_theora_frame function in media/liboggplay/src/liboggplay/oggplay_data.c in liboggplay, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4, attempts to reuse an earlier frame data structure upon encountering a decoding error for the first frame, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .ogg video file.
- Products
- liboggplay
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.2.1~git20091120-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-3378
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The oggplay_data_handle_theora_frame function in media/liboggplay/src/liboggplay/oggplay_data.c in liboggplay, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4, attempts to reuse an earlier frame data structure upon encountering a decoding error for the first frame, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .ogg video file.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3378
liboggplay
Fixed versions: 0.2.1~git20091120-1
liboggplay
Fixed versions: 0.2.1~git20091120-1
Complete source record
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