A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder 1.29.9.2. Affected by this issue is the function huffcode of the file libfaac/huff2.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability (Crash). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. Impacted is 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 4 case.

The weakness was published 12/06/2018. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-19887 since 12/05/2018. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (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.

Similar entries are available at 127549, 127551, 127552 and 127553.

CPE

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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

Recommended: no mitigation known
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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-2018-19887 (🔒)
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Entry

Created: 12/06/2018
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