CVE-2012-6303

medium

Published 2013-10-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-19772 dos windows verified

Jean Pascal Pereira · 2012-07-12

WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4 - Memory Corruption (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.10-dfsg1-12.1`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.10-dfsg1-12.1`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.10-dfsg1-12.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.10-dfsg1-12.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.10-dfsg1-12.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kth	snack_sound_toolkit	`2.2.10`
kth	wavesurfer	`1.8.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.