A faac security update has been released for Gentoo Linux.

GLSA 202208-16 : faac: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202208-16
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  https://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Low
Title: faac: Denial of service
Date: August 10, 2022
Bugs: #762505
ID: 202208-16

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in faac could result in denial of service.

Background
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faac contains free MPEG-4 audio codecs by AudioCoding.com.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/faac < 1.30 >= 1.30

Description
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An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of
libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash.

Impact
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An attacker with the ability to provide crafted input to faac could cause a denial of service.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All faac users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faac-1.30"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2018-19886
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19886

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-16

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
  https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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