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CVE-2012-0270 (GCVE-0-2012-0270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-02-17 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:23
VLAI
Summary
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Csound before 5.16.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) hetro file to the getnum function in util/heti_main.c or (2) PVOC file to the getnum function in util/pv_import.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/47585 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csou… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2012-02-23 00:00
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  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.