Vulnerability CVE-2012-6303
Published: 2013-10-28   Modified: 2013-10-29

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4 <= Memory Corruption Exploit / PoC
Jean Pascal Pere...
13.07.2012

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
KTH -> Snack sound toolkit 
KTH -> Wavesurfer 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:126
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2
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