Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2009-0084

Use-after-free vulnerability in DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and 9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an MJPEG file or video stream with a malformed Huffman table, which triggers an exception that frees heap memory that is later accessed, aka "MJPEG Decompression Vulnerability."

Published

2009-04-15T08:00:00.420

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-94
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System microsoft windows_2000 * No
Application microsoft directx 8.1 Yes
Application microsoft directx 9.0 Yes
Application microsoft directx 9.0a Yes
Application microsoft directx 9.0b Yes
Application microsoft directx 9.0c Yes
Operating System microsoft windows_2000 * No
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2003 * No
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2003 * No
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2003 * No
Operating System microsoft windows_server_2003 * No
Operating System microsoft windows_xp * No
Operating System microsoft windows_xp * No
Operating System microsoft windows_xp * No
Operating System microsoft windows_xp * No
References