Out-of-bounds Write Affecting faad2 package, versions <2.7-8+deb8u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FAAD2-369906
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed23 Nov 2018

Introduced: 23 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19503  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 faad2 to version 2.7-8+deb8u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream faad2 package and not the faad2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a stack-based buffer overflow in the function calculate_gain() in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c.