Out-of-Bounds Affecting faac package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FAAC-2381066
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20360  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade faac to version 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbr_process_channel function of libfaad/sbr_dec.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.

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