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CVE-2019-15296
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. The faad_resetbits function in libfaad/bits.c is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability. The number of bits to be read is determined by ld->buffer_size - words*4, cast to uint32. If ld->buffer_size - words*4 is negative, a buffer overflow is later performed via getdword_n(&ld->start[words], ld->bytes_left).
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
- https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522
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