VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-19502
There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in libfaad/syntax.c.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 1.66%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.66%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.66% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- audiocoding/freeware advanced audio decoder 2
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faadExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faadExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.