CVE-2018-19502: An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in…

PriorityP434high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.52%

71.8th percentile

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in libfaad/syntax.c.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
audiocoding	freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2	—	—
debian	faad2	< faad2 2.8.8-3 (bookworm)	faad2 2.8.8-3 (bookworm)
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3	2.8.8-3
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3	2.8.8-3
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3	2.8.8-3
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3	2.8.8-3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv7.8HIGH

vendor_debian7.8HIGH

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