CVE-2019-15296
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.34%Published: 8/21/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2019-15296DEBIAN-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).
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/faad2from 0, < 2.9.0-r0
- Debian/faad2from 0, < 2.8.8-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |