Off-by-one overwrite vulnerability in Google Chrome and Libav allows for denial of service and potential memory corruption

Off-by-one overwrite vulnerability in Google Chrome and Libav allows for denial of service and potential memory corruption

CVE-2012-5144 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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."

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