Out-of-Bounds Affecting knik0/faad2 package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KNIK0FAAD2-15674531
  • published18 Mar 2026
  • disclosed22 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20358  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade knik0/faad2 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 lt_prediction function of libfaad/lt_predict.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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