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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-20360

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbr_process_channel function of libfaad/sbr_dec.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-20360

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Dec 2018, 15:29 UTC

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbr_process_channel function of libfaad/sbr_dec.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

osv:CVE-2018-20360
Complete source record
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