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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20198

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 faad2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.8-2"}]}]

Debian:13 faad2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.8-2"}]}]

Debian:14 faad2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.8-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org