CVE-2018-19503

Publication date 23 November 2018

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a stack-based buffer overflow in the function calculate_gain() in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
faad2 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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