CVE-2018-19888

MEDIUM

Freeware Advanced Audio Coder <1.29.9.2 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the HCB_ESC case.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/25

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0087
EPSS Percentile 54.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_coder 1.29.9.2
Published Dec 06, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026