CVE-2018-20196

HIGH

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 <2.8.8 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact because the S_M array is mishandled.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/19
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0128
EPSS Percentile 66.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 2.8.8
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
Published Dec 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026