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FKIE_CVE-2018-20358

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-22 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:52

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the lt_prediction function of libfaad/lt_predict.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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/31	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
cve@mitre.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
cve@mitre.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/31	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	audiocoding	freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2	2.8.8

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CVE-2018-20358 (GCVE-0-2018-20358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-22 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:58

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/31	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Date Public

2018-12-22 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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