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Debian: CVE-2018-20199: faad2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-20199: faad2 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/18/2018
Created
08/30/2019
Added
08/30/2019
Modified
03/31/2022

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the ONLY_LONG_SEQUENCE case.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-faad2

References

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