CVE-2018-20197

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

There is a stack-based buffer underflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact because limiting the additional noise energy level is mishandled for the G_max > G case.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.8.8-2`
sid	Fixed	`2.8.8-2`
forky	Fixed	`2.8.8-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.8.8-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.8.8-2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20197

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