CVE-2012-5144
HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Memory corruption
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.97, and Libav 0.7.x before 0.7.7 and 0.8.x before 0.8.5, do not properly perform AAC decoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to "an off-by-one overwrite when switching to LTP profile from MAIN."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1705-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161639
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16007