CVE-2018-20359 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer5 documents5 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.3%

top 44.57%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Faad2 Project Faad2 Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

Timeline

PublishedDec 22

Latest updateMay 13

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFramePS function of libfaad/sbr_dec.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.

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

▶NVDaudiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_22.8.8

▶Debianfaad2_project/faad2< 2.8.8-2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-4rgj-mg7w-vqg7: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFramePS function of libfaad/sbr_dec↗2022-05-13

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CVEList

CVE-2018-20359: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFramePS function of libfaad/sbr_dec↗2018-12-22

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OSV

CVE-2018-20359: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFramePS function of libfaad/sbr_dec↗2018-12-22

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📋Vendor Advisories

Debian

CVE-2018-20359: faad2 - An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFrame...↗2018

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