CVE-2012-5144
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…
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- Chrome
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16007 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1682 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1705-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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