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<glsa id="202208-16">
    <title>faac: Denial of service</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">faac</product>
    <announced>2022-08-10</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-08-10</revised>
    <bug>762505</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="media-libs/faac" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.30</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.30</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>faac contains free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>An attacker with the ability to provide crafted input to faac could cause a denial of service.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All faac users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faac-1.30"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19886">CVE-2018-19886</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-08-10T22:30:58.155858Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-08-10T22:30:58.161210Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>