PT-2018-15138 · Freeware Advanced Audio Coder · Faac

Fantasy7082 · Published 2018-12-06 · Updated 2023-02-03 · CVE-2018-19886

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FAAC version 1.29.9.2

Description A memory address dereference issue was found in the huffcode function, located in libfaac/huff2.c, which can cause a segmentation fault and application crash. This results in a denial of service, specifically in the book 8 case.

Recommendations For FAAC version 1.29.9.2, consider restricting access to the huffcode function in libfaac/huff2.c to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19886

Affected Products

Faac

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/23 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19886 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19886 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-19886 · Note