medium5.5
CVE-2018-20199
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Audiocoding | Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 | before 2.9.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109