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From: glsamaker@g.o
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202208-16 ] faac: Denial of service
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:48:39
Message-Id: 166017066261.8.10795703527387723200@a9099abfa3b1
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202208-16
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7 Severity: Low
8 Title: faac: Denial of service
9 Date: August 10, 2022
10 Bugs: #762505
11 ID: 202208-16
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15 Synopsis
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18 A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.
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20 Background
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23 faac contains free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com.
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25 Affected packages
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29 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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31 1 media-libs/faac < 1.30 >= 1.30
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33 Description
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36 An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of
37 libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash.
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39 Impact
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42 An attacker with the ability to provide crafted input to faac could cause a denial of service.
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44 Workaround
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47 There is no known workaround at this time.
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49 Resolution
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52 All faac users should upgrade to the latest version:
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54 # emerge --sync
55 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faac-1.30"
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57 References
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60 [ 1 ] CVE-2018-19886
61 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19886
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63 Availability
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66 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
67 the Gentoo Security Website:
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69 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-16
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71 Concerns?
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74 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
75 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
76 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
77 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
78 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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80 License
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83 Copyright 2022 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
84 belongs to its owner(s).
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86 The contents of this document are licensed under the
87 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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89 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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