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FKIE_CVE-2018-20357

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-22 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:52
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in sbr_process_channel of libfaad/sbr_dec.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/28Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/28Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
audiocoding freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 2.8.8
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