CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20199
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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 ONLY_LONG_SEQUENCE case.
Affected configurations
• audiocoding freeware advanced audio decoder 2 (< 2.9.0)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109 Third Party Advisory