CVE-2018-20357: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: version 2.8.8 only

Published 2018-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.