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Debian: CVE-2018-19502: faad2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-19502: faad2 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2018
Created
08/30/2019
Added
08/30/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-faad2

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