CVE-2018-20198 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 44.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Faad2 Project Faad2Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2
Timeline
PublishedDec 18
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianfaad2_project/faad2< 2.8.8-2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-xrvj-fcp5-3rm2: A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-20198: A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank↗2018-12-18
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OSV
CVE-2018-20198: A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank↗2018-12-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2018-20198: faad2 - A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c ...↗2018
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CVE-2018-20198 — NULL Pointer Dereference | cvebase