Medium
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 6 case.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19889
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:09 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 6 case.
osv:CVE-2018-19889
Complete source record
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