CVE-2018-20359: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

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

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the sbrDecodeSingleFramePS function of libfaad/sbr_dec.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Affected products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: version 2.8.8 only

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