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CVE-2018-20360

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbr_process_channel function of libfaad/sbr_dec.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.

Affected products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: before 2.9.0 — fixed in 2.9.0
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 2.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/32
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109
• https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/32
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

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