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CVE-2012-6303

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6303 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the Snack Sound Toolkit's GetWavHeader function, impacting products like WaveSurfer 1.8.8p4 and various openSUSE distributions. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity, and can be triggered remotely with medium attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service or arbitrary code execution. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept exploit is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:snack_sound_toolkit:2.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kth:wavesurfer:1.8.8:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-19772 · Jul 12, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1024 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00034.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/49889
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-04.xml
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/19772
ExploitVDB Entry
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/12/10/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory