CVE-2012-6303

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-6303
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-10-28 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the GetWavHeader function in generic/jkSoundFile.c in the Snack Sound Toolkit, as used in WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size in a WAV file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kth Snack Sound Toolkit 2.2.10 All All All
Application Kth Snack Sound Toolkit 2.2.10 All All All
Application Kth Wavesurfer 1.8.8 p4 All All
Application Kth Wavesurfer 1.8.8 p4 All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:126 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Broken Link
WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4 <= Memory Corruption PoC EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, VDB Entry
oss-security - CVE-2012-6303 WaveSurfer and Snack Sound Toolkit buffer overflows MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Snack: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:0382-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
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