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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.

Published 7 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.2%
percentile 68%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.21% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

  • github.com /knik0/faad2/issues/23 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00022.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2019/dsa-4522 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • seclists.org /bugtraq/2019/Sep/28 · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/202006-17 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred

Sources

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