National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5144
Original release date:12/12/2012
Last revised:02/14/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161639
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1705-1
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1682
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
Type: Advisory
