Name: CVE-2018-19886: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-12-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-19886, CWE-119, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00996

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade faac	Aug 22, 2024	Dec 6, 2018
Debian	—	Upgrade faac	Jul 30, 2024	Dec 6, 2018
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade media-libs/faac.	Aug 11, 2022	Dec 6, 2018

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CVSS Details

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