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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1791-1 faad2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

21 May 2019

Affected Packages:

faad2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-20194, CVE-2018-20197, CVE-2018-20198, CVE-2018-20362.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in faad2, the Freeware Advanced Audio Coder:

• CVE-2018-20194, CVE-2018-20197

  Improper handling of implicit channel mapping reconfiguration leads to multiple heap based buffer overflow issues. These flaws might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause DoS.

• CVE-2018-20198, CVE-2018-20362

  Insufficient user input validation in the sbr_hfadj module leads to stack-based buffer underflow issues. These flaws might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause DoS or any other unspecified impact.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.7-8+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your faad2 packages.

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