Buffer overflow in Google Chrome
CVE-2012-5144
Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.97, and Libav 0.7.x before 0.7.7 and 0.8.x before 0.8.5, do not properly perform AAC decoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to "an off-by-one overwrite when switching to LTP profile from MAIN."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.034 (88.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.034 · newest: 0.034 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Google Chrome — versions 23.0.1271.0, 23.0.1271.1, 23.0.1271.2
- Libav — versions 0.8, 0.8.1, 0.8.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
- openSUSE — versions 12.1, 12.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16007 (signature, vdb-entry)
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html (vendor-advisory)
- libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1705-1 (vendor-advisory)