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libfishsound, speex — security advisory
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.
- Products
- libfishsound, speex
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.7.0-2.2, 1.2~beta2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-1686
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1686
libfishsound
Fixed versions: 0.7.0-2.2
libfishsound
Fixed versions: 0.7.0-2.2
libfishsound
Fixed versions: 0.7.0-2.2
speex
Fixed versions: 1.2~beta2-1
speex
Fixed versions: 1.2~beta2-1
speex
Fixed versions: 1.2~beta2-1
Complete source record
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