Out-of-Bounds Affecting faac package, versions <1.30-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE317-FAAC-3139835
  • published6 Dec 2018
  • disclosed6 Dec 2018

Introduced: 6 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19886  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.17 faac to version 1.30-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream faac package and not the faac package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.17 relevant fixed versions and status.

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case.

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