CVE-2023-34823

Publication date 14 June 2023

Last updated 22 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

fdkaac before 1.0.5 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in read_callback function in src/main.c.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
fdkaac	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.0.0-1ubuntu0.25.04.1
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.0.0-1ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.0.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.6.3-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.6.3-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.6.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

sbeattie

fdkaac is a CLI utility based on libfdk-aac (src:fdk-aac). same fix commit as CVE-2023-34824

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
fdkaac	Upstream: 22dbf72

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H