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CVE-2013-0899

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the padding implementation in the opus_packet_parse_impl function in src/opus_decoder.c in Opus before 1.0.2, as used in Google Chrome before 25.0.1364.97 on Windows and Linux and before 25.0.1364.99 on Mac OS X and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a long packet.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 25.0.1364.97; before 25.0.1364.99 — fixed in 25.0.1364.97, 25.0.1364.99
• Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2
• Opus-Codec Opus: before 1.0.2 — fixed in 1.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 25.0.1364.97, 25.0.1364.99; Opus-Codec Opus 1.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/02/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00045.html
• http://opus-codec.org/downloads/
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160480
• https://codereview.chromium.org/11575026
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16027
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/opus/src/opus_decoder.c?r1=173498&r2=173497&pathrev=173498
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=173498
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/02/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00045.html
• http://opus-codec.org/downloads/
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160480

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