CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6303
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• kth snack sound toolkit 2.2.10
• kth wavesurfer 1.8.8
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49889 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772 Exploit, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:126 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49889 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772 Exploit, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:126 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory