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high 7.8

CVE-2018-19502 json

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1.

published 2018-11-23 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-11191

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in libfaad/syntax.c.

Patch / fix

  • faad2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.8.8-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19502

  • faad2 Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.7-8+deb8u3build0.14.04.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19502

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • faad2 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 2.9.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-19502

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faad referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Sources

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