PT-2018-3072

CVE-2018-20357

Published

2018-11-23

Updated

2026-10-01

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) version 2.8.8

Description A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the sbr process channel function of the libfaad/sbr dec.c module. This issue causes a segmentation fault and application crash, potentially allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) version 2.8.8, consider disabling the sbr process channel function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Fantasy7082

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Related identifiers

CVE-2018-20357