CVE-2018-20198

medium

Description

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, which leads to denial of service because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the LONG_START_SEQUENCE case.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html

https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/23

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-12-18

Updated: 2020-06-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium