CVE-2018-20362

MEDIUM

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 2.8.8 - NULL Pointer Dereference in ifilter_bank

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the EIGHT_SHORT_SEQUENCE case.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/26
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.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 5.5
EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 63.3%
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-476
Status published
Products (1)
audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 2.8.8
Published Dec 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026