{"document":{"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.","title":"Terms of Use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/","issuing_authority":"Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.","name":"Red Hat Product Security","namespace":"https://www.redhat.com"},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2009/cve-2009-1438.json"}],"title":"libmodplug: Integer overflow in the MED files loading routine","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-11-21T13:12:09+00:00","generator":{"date":"2025-11-21T13:12:09+00:00","engine":{"name":"Red Hat SDEngine","version":"4.6.12"}},"id":"CVE-2009-1438","initial_release_date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","number":"1","summary":"Initial version"},{"date":"2025-04-09T00:45:39+00:00","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-11-21T13:12:09+00:00","number":"3","summary":"Last generated version"}],"status":"final","version":"3"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"category":"vendor","name":"Red Hat","product":{"name":"All currently supported Red Hat products","product_id":"red_hat_products","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/a:redhat"}}}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2009-1438","discovery_date":"2009-04-21T00:00:00+00:00","flags":[{"label":"vulnerable_code_not_present","product_ids":["red_hat_products"]}],"notes":[{"category":"description","text":"Integer overflow in the CSoundFile::ReadMed function (src/load_med.cpp) in libmodplug before 0.8.6, as used in gstreamer-plugins, TTPlayer, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a MED file with a crafted (1) song comment or (2) song name, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as exploited in the wild in August 2008.","title":"Vulnerability description"},{"category":"other","text":"The impact of this flaw is limited to application crash, not allowing code execution. Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as media players using GStreamer framework to be a security issue.\n\nFor further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1438","title":"Statement"}],"product_status":{"known_not_affected":["red_hat_products"]},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1438"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1438","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1438"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1438","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1438"}],"release_date":"2008-02-25T00:00:00+00:00","title":"libmodplug: Integer overflow in the MED files loading routine"}]}