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. The vulnerability causes a…

PriorityP415medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.13%

62.8th percentile

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

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
audiocoding	freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2	< 2.9.0	2.9.0
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	faad2	< faad2 2.8.8-3.1 (bookworm)	faad2 2.8.8-3.1 (bookworm)
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3.1	2.8.8-3.1
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3.1	2.8.8-3.1
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3.1	2.8.8-3.1
faad2_project	faad2	>= 0 < 2.8.8-3.1	2.8.8-3.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv5.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.5LOW

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