FAAD2: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202006-17

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FAAD2, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

Background

FAAD2 is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoder.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FAAD2. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/faad2-2.9.0"
 

References

• CVE-2018-19502
• CVE-2018-19503
• CVE-2018-19504
• CVE-2018-20194
• CVE-2018-20195
• CVE-2018-20196
• CVE-2018-20197
• CVE-2018-20198
• CVE-2018-20199
• CVE-2018-20357
• CVE-2018-20358
• CVE-2018-20359
• CVE-2018-20360
• CVE-2018-20361
• CVE-2018-20362
• CVE-2019-15296
• CVE-2019-6956

Release date
June 15, 2020

Latest revision
June 15, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local, remote

Bugzilla entries

• 695540