CVE-2018-19502
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEURUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.66% (77th) EPSS
CVSS 6.8 · medium
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
7.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8
v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9
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weaknesses
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affected products (7)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- audiocoding freeware advanced audio decoder 2= 2.8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:audiocoding:freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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also known as (4)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
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sources
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references (24)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faadcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154489/Debian-Security-Advisory-4522-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158089/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202006-17.htmlcnnvd
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28cnnvd
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1899-1cnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17cnnvd
- https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/cnnvd
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