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

EPSS: 0.102 (95.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA, Broken Link)