CVE-2018-20357
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.012 · 67 %ileEURUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.17% (67th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in sbr_process_channel of libfaad/sbr_dec.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
5.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6
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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= 2.8.8nvdUScpe: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 (16)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/issues/28cnnvd
- 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.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Freeware-Advanced-Audio-Coder-multiple-vulnerabilities-30331cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3509/cnnvd
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522cnnvd
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