CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20197
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
There is a stack-based buffer underflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact because limiting the additional noise energy level is mishandled for the G_max > G case.
Affected configurations
• audiocoding freeware advanced audio decoder 2 2.8.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/20 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28 seclists.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/20 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28 seclists.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522 www.debian.org