CVE-2019-15296

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    CVE-2019-15296

    Published: 21 Aug 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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).

    References: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17, https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522, https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 334e7647a5f31903aca33dde39bb8683e9d8cccd
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.8.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High