CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20198
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the LONG_START_SEQUENCE case.
Affected configurations
• audiocoding freeware advanced audio decoder 2 2.8.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/23 Exploit, Third Party 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/23 Exploit, Third Party 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