Upstream information

CVE-2018-20199 at MITRE

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.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 because adding to windowed output is mishandled in the ONLY_LONG_SEQUENCE case.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • faad2 >= 2.11.2-2.1
  • faad2-devel >= 2.11.2-2.1
  • libfaad2 >= 2.11.2-2.1
  • libfaad2-32bit >= 2.11.2-2.1
  • libfaad_drm2 >= 2.11.2-2.1
  • libfaad_drm2-32bit >= 2.11.2-2.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15214

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Dec 20 02:29:12 2018
CVE page last modified: Fri Jul 4 00:35:09 2025