CVE-2012-0270

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 54.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-02-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Csound before 5.16.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) hetro file to the getnum function in util/heti_main.c or (2) PVOC file to the getnum function in util/pv_import.c.

Affected products

Csounds Csound: through 5.16.1; 5.12.4, 5.13.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.0, 5.14.1, 5.14.2 (+2)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00027.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47585
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-3/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.16/Version5.16_Notes/view
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00027.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47585
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-3/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.16/Version5.16_Notes/view

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