A vulnerability has been found in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder 1.29.9.2 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function huffcode of the file libfaac/huff2.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability (Crash). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

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 6 case.

The weakness was disclosed 12/06/2018. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-19889 since 12/05/2018. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/06/2018).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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CVSSv3

VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈3.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈3.5
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CVSSv2

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Exploiting

Class: Denial of service / Crash (CWE-404)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: No

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Countermeasures

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Timeline

12/05/2018 CVE assigned
12/06/2018 Advisory disclosed
12/06/2018 VulDB entry created
12/06/2018 VulDB last update

Sources

CVE: CVE-2018-19889 (🔒)
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Entry

Created: 12/06/2018
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