CVE-2012-6303

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Kth Snack Sound Toolkit: 2.2.10
Kth Wavesurfer: 1.8.8-p4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49889
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
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49889
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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