VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-20198
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.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.21%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.21% probability · 67th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- audiocoding/freeware advanced audio decoder 2
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/23Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/23Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.