Alpine: multiple faac packages: security update to 1.29.9.2-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400423

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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-2018-19886)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400423

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19886

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19886

Detections

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