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faad2 — security advisory
An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in ifilter_bank() in libfaad/filtbank.c.
- Products
- faad2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.9.0-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19504
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in ifilter_bank() in libfaad/filtbank.c.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-19504
faad2
Fixed versions: 2.9.0-r0
faad2
Fixed versions: 2.9.0-r0
faad2
Fixed versions: 2.9.0-r0
faad2
Fixed versions: 2.9.0-r0
faad2
Fixed versions: 2.9.0-r0
Complete source record
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