Buffer overflow in Kth Snack Sound Toolkit
CVE-2012-6303
Heap-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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.102 (95.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.102 · newest: 0.102 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Kth Snack Sound Toolkit — versions 2.2.10
- Kth Wavesurfer — versions 1.8.8
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/49889 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772 (Exploit, VDB Entry, exploit)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)