vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-20358: faad2 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 22, 2018
Added
Sep 16, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the lt_prediction function of libfaad/lt_predict.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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-faad2
Title
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