NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting faac package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FAAC-2381078
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for faac.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the EIGHT_SHORT_SEQUENCE case.

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