CVE-2018-20199
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.29%faad2 - security update
Published: 12/18/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (3)
- Alpine/faad2from 0, < 2.9.0-r0
- Debian/faad2from 0, < 2.8.8-3.1
- Debian/faad2from 0, < 2.8.0~cvs20161113-1+deb9u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |