GLSA 202208-16: faac: Denial of service
| Severity: | low |
| Title: | faac: Denial of service |
| Date: | 08/10/2022 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 202208-16 |
Synopsis
A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.Background
faac contains free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| media-libs/faac | < 1.30 | >= 1.30 | All supported architectures |
Description
An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash.
Impact
An attacker with the ability to provide crafted input to faac could cause a denial of service.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All faac users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faac-1.30"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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