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Bug 762505 (CVE-2018-19886) - <media-libs/faac-1.30: Denial of service (CVE-2018-19886)
Summary: <media-libs/faac-1.30: Denial of service (CVE-2018-19886)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2018-19886
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa+]
Keywords: PullRequest
Depends on: 762493
Blocks:
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Reported: 2020-12-30 02:17 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2022-08-10 22:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-12-30 02:17:27 UTC 
Description:
"An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case."
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2021-01-08 09:52:52 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e804cebc451219555e782a2bb4f52090486d808a

commit e804cebc451219555e782a2bb4f52090486d808a
Author:     John Helmert III <jchelmert3@posteo.net>
AuthorDate: 2021-01-07 16:57:26 +0000
Commit:     Miroslav Šulc <fordfrog@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-01-08 09:51:03 +0000

    media-libs/faac: security cleanup (drop <1.30)
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/762505
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.12, Repoman-3.0.2
    Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <jchelmert3@posteo.net>
    Signed-off-by: Miroslav Šulc <fordfrog@gentoo.org>

 media-libs/faac/Manifest             |  1 -
 media-libs/faac/faac-1.29.9.2.ebuild | 36 ------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 37 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Miroslav Šulc gentoo-dev 2021-04-29 07:59:45 UTC 
the tree is clean, you can proceed.
Comment 3 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 17:24:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 17:33:21 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 17:41:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 17:49:22 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 18:05:17 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 18:13:35 UTC 
Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.
Comment 9 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-08-10 18:41:43 UTC 
Request filed.
Comment 10 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-08-10 22:33:36 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glsa.git/commit/?id=ac47adfe629ab40cef7f5405eb0f81e15a2f6336

commit ac47adfe629ab40cef7f5405eb0f81e15a2f6336
Author:     GLSAMaker <glsamaker@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-08-10 22:30:58 +0000
Commit:     John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-08-10 22:33:18 +0000

    [ GLSA 202208-16 ] faac: Denial of service
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/762505
    Signed-off-by: GLSAMaker <glsamaker@gentoo.org>
    Signed-off-by: John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org>

 glsa-202208-16.xml | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
Comment 11 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-08-10 22:37:04 UTC 
GLSA released, all done!