CVE-2009-0084 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-0084

Use-after-free vulnerability in DirectShow in Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and 9.0...

Vulnerability Description

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."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

directx
Vulnerable Versions:
8.1, 9.0, 9.0a, 9.0b, 9.0c

Timeline

Official Publish: April 15th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.