CVE-2012-6303

Upstream information

CVE-2012-6303 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 793860 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2015:0382-1, published Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:04:48 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2017:3016-1, published Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:06:54 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	snack >= 2.2.10-215.2	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA snack-2.2.10-215.2

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:43:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:21 2022