Gentoo update for faac

Published: 2022-08-14

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2018-19886
CWE-ID	CWE-119
Exploitation vector	Local
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Gentoo Linux Operating systems & Components / Operating system media-libs/faac Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Gentoo

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU33005

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 4.8 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19886

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.
media-libs/faac to version: 1.30

Vulnerable software versions

Gentoo Linux: All versions

media-libs/faac: before 1.30

External links

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

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.