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faac — security advisory
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.
- Products
- faac
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.30-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19886
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-19886
faac
Fixed versions: 1.30-r0
faac
Fixed versions: 1.30-r0
Complete source record
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