Buffer overflow - CVE-2018-20359
Published: December 22, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33382
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20359
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 sbrDecodeSingleFramePS 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 software
Gentoo Linux
faad2 (Alpine package)
faad2 (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20359
Install update from vendor's website.
faad2 (Alpine package) - update to 2.9.0-r0