PT-2018-15140 · Freeware Advanced Audio Coder · Faac

Fantasy7082 · Published 2018-12-06 · Updated 2018-12-28 · CVE-2018-19888

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 leads to a denial of service, specifically in the HCB ESC case.

Recommendations For FAAC version 1.29.9.2, consider applying a patch or fix to resolve the issue in the huffcode function. As a temporary workaround, restrict the use of the huffcode function to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19888

Affected Products

Faac

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/knik0/faac/issues/25 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19888 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19888 · Security Note