VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-20199
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.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.13%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.13%). 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 ONLY_LONG_SEQUENCE case.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.13% probability · 65th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- audiocoding/freeware advanced audio decoder 2 · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/24Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.