Name: CVE-2018-19503: Out-of-bounds Write
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-19503, CWE-787, CVSS 7.8, EPSS 0.00378

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a stack-based buffer overflow in the function calculate_gain() in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade faad2	Aug 22, 2024	Nov 23, 2018
Debian	—	Upgrade faad2	Sep 17, 2019	Nov 23, 2018
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade media-libs/faad2.	Jun 16, 2020	Nov 23, 2018
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Nov 23, 2018

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CVSS Details

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