CVE-2018-19887

Name	CVE-2018-19887
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 4 case.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	915763

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
faac (PTS)	jessie/non-free	1.28-6	vulnerable
	stretch/non-free	1.28+cvs20151130-1	vulnerable
	bullseye/non-free, sid/non-free, buster/non-free	1.29.9.2-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
faac	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant		915763

https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/21
Negligable security impact, crash in CLI tool (builds a lib, but only internal)