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Gentoo: GLSA-202308-12 Low: libfaac Vulnerability Warning

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2022
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A minor advisory for Gentoo users highlights a denial of service vulnerability in faac. Suggested remedial steps are included.
A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo low severity faac

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
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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 security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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

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security advisory denial of service gentoo low severity faac

Synopsis

A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.

Background

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

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/faac < 1.30 >= 1.30

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.

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