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 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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HIGH

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."

Published Dec 12, 2012

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.38%

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."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.38% 0.03377

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03377

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.38% (0.03377)	88.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.53% (0.03533)	87.72th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 19, 2025	3.50% (0.03505)	86.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	4.77% (0.04771)	88.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.25% (0.01247)	86.11th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	1.25% (0.01247)	83.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.28% (0.01279)	83.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	69.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (7)

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1705-1
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161639
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16007
vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Link	Providers	Tags
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/12/stable-channel-update.html		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.7.7.changelog		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.5.changelog		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00073.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1705-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161639		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16007		vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner Chrome

Published Dec 12, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Sep 24, 2012

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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