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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19504: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in ifilter_bank() in libfaad/filtbank.c.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-faad2
Title
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