High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-15296
CVE-2019-15296
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).
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Affected products
3- Freeware/Advanced Audio Decoder 2description
- Range: <2.8.8
Patches
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References
5- github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522nvd
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