CVE-2018-20360

MEDIUM

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder < 2.9.0 - Denial of Service via Invalid Memory Address Dereference

Title source: llm

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbr_process_channel function of libfaad/sbr_dec.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.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/32

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

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0113

EPSS Percentile 62.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (4)

audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 < 2.9.0

debian/debian_linux 8.0

debian/debian_linux 9.0

debian/debian_linux 10.0

Published Dec 22, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026