CVE-2018-19502

HIGH

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 <2.8.1 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 2.8.1
Published Nov 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026