ubuntu · CVE-2018-20196

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-12-18 01:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-18 17:08:05 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-20196 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (faad2), 19 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 13, ignored 2, needed 2, deferred 1, released 1.

Description:

There is a stack-based buffer overflow 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 the S_M array is mishandled.

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