vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-20194): faad2 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 18, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

There is a stack-based buffer underflow 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 limiting the additional noise energy level is mishandled for the G_max

Solution(s)

no-fix-ubuntu-packageubuntu-pro-upgrade-faad2
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