SB2022081402 - Gentoo update for faac
Published: August 14, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022081402
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19886)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.