CVE-2018-19502
faad2 - security update
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.29%
Description
An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in libfaad/syntax.c.
How to fix CVE-2018-19502
To remediate CVE-2018-19502, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/faad2—upgrade to 2.9.0-r0 or later
- Debian/faad2—upgrade to 2.8.8-3 or later
- —upgrade to 2.7-8+deb8u3 or later
- —upgrade to 2.8.0~cvs20161113-1+deb9u2 or later
Is CVE-2018-19502 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 2.9.0-r0
- from 0, < 2.8.8-3
- from 0, < 2.7-8+deb8u3
- from 0, < 2.8.0~cvs20161113-1+deb9u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |