Name | CVE-2018-19886 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 915763 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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faac (PTS) | trixie/non-free, sid/non-free, bullseye/non-free, bookworm/non-free | 1.30-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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faac | source | (unstable) | 1.30-1 | unimportant | | 915763 |
Notes
https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/23
Negligable security impact, crash in CLI tool (builds a lib, but only internal)