vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-20196: FAAD2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 18, 2018
Added
Jun 16, 2020
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact because the S_M array is mishandled.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-faad2
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