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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202208-16

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Severity: Low
Title: faac: Denial of service
Date: August 10, 2022
Bugs: #762505
ID: 202208-16

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.

Background

faac contains free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com.

Affected packages

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1 media-libs/faac < 1.30 >= 1.30

Description

An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of
libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash.

Impact

An attacker with the ability to provide crafted input to faac could cause a denial of service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All faac users should upgrade to the latest version:

emerge --sync

emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose “>=media-libs/faac-1.30”

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-19886
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19886

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-16

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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