Published: 28/10/2013 Updated: 30/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 685

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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 malicious users 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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kth wavesurfer 1.8.8
kth snack sound toolkit 2.2.10
opensuse opensuse 13.2
opensuse opensuse 13.1

Debian Bug report logs - #695614 CVE-2012-6303: buffer overflows Package: snack; Maintainer for snack is Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@debianorg>; Affects: wavesurfer Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:24:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security Fixed in versions snack/22 ...

#!/usr/bin/perl # WaveSurfer 188p4 <= Memory Corruption Exploit / PoC # Author: Jean Pascal Pereira <pereira@secbizde> # This script creates a crafted WAV file which leads the application to crash (DoS) my $crafted = "\x52\x49\x46\x46\x20\x12\x01\x00\x57\x41\x56\x45\x66\x6D\x74\x20" "\x10\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x44\xAC\x00\ ...

CWE-119 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2 http://secunia.com/advisories/49889 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:126 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695614 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19772/

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