Opus
CVE-2013-0899
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Integer overflow checks
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 1.17%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Integer overflow in the padding implementation in the opus_packet_parse_impl function in src/opus_decoder.c in Opus before 1.0.2, as used in Google Chrome before 25.0.1364.97 on Windows and Linux and. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate arithmetic operations, use safe integer libraries, check bounds before allocation.
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This vulnerability is classified as Integer Overflow (CWE-190), which allows attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow. Integer overflow in the padding implementation in the opus_packet_parse_impl function in src/opus_decoder.c in Opus before 1.0.2, as used in Google Chrome before 25.0.1364.97 on Windows and Linux and before 25.0.1364.99 on Mac OS X and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a long packet. Affected products include: Opus-Codec Opus, Google Chrome, Opensuse. Version information: before 1.0.2.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Integer overflow in the padding implementation in the opus_packet_parse_impl function in src/opus_decoder.c in Opus before 1.0.2, as used in Google Chrome before 25.0.1364.97 on Windows and Linux and before 25.0.1364.99 on Mac OS X and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a long packet.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation produces a result that exceeds the maximum value a given integer type can store.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
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