Bug#915763: faac: CVE-2018-19886 CVE-2018-19887 CVE-2018-19889 CVE-2018-19890 CVE-2018-19891

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: faac
Version: 1.29.9.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerabilities were published for faac.

CVE-2018-19886[0]:
| An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode
| function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
| 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application
| crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 8 case.

CVE-2018-19887[1]:
| An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode
| function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
| 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application
| crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 4 case.

CVE-2018-19889[2]:
| An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode
| function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
| 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application
| crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 6 case.

CVE-2018-19890[3]:
| An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode
| function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
| 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application
| crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 2 case.

CVE-2018-19891[4]:
| An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode
| function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC)
| 1.29.9.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application
| crash, which leads to denial of service in the book 10 case.

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19886
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19886
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19887
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19887
[2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19889
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19889
[3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19890
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19890
[4] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19891
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19891

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore