Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-4201

Title: Audiocoding Faad2 RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-4201.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Sep 24, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.65%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-4201: 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.

Impacted Vendors

audiocoding 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899 http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445 http://osvdb.org/48349 http://secunia.com/advisories/32006 http://secunia.com/advisories/32661 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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499899 http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=166174&action=view http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238445 http://osvdb.org/48349 http://secunia.com/advisories/32006 http://secunia.com/advisories/32661 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-4201 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 24, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.