CVE-2012-5144 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5144?

CVE-2012-5144 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 12 Dec 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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."

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5144?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Google Chrome, Libav Libav, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5144?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-5144 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5144 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6c83-9pcg-77c5.