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CVE-2018-19502

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function excluded_channels() in libfaad/syntax.c.

Affected products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: 2.8.1

References

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faad
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
• https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faad
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
• https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522

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