PT-2018-3077
CVE-2018-20362
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Published
2018-12-17
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Updated
2026-10-01
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CVSS 2.0
7.1
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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 ifilter bank function of libfaad/filtbank.c. This issue causes a segmentation fault and application crash due to mishandling of adding to windowed output in the EIGHT SHORT SEQUENCE case. The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service when processing the EIGHT SHORT SEQUENCE case.
Recommendations
For Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) version 2.8.8, consider disabling the ifilter bank function in libfaad/filtbank.c as a temporary workaround to prevent exploitation. However, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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