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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-19886: faac: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-19886: faac: Denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/06/2018
Created
08/29/2022
Added
08/11/2022
Modified
08/11/2022

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-faac

References

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