CVE-2012-6303 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	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 Fri Dec 8 15:48:59 2023
openSUSE-SU-2017:3016-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:38 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`snack >= 2.2.10-215.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11390

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:43:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 19:54:33 2025