CVE-2018-19890

NameCVE-2018-19890
DescriptionAn 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 2 case.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs915763

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
faac (PTS)buster/non-free1.29.9.2-2vulnerable (unimportant)
trixie/non-free, bullseye/non-free, sid/non-free, bookworm/non-free1.30-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
faacsource(unstable)1.30-1unimportant915763

Notes

https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/20
Negligable security impact, crash in CLI tool (builds a lib, but only internal)

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