CVE-2019-6956

HIGH

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 <2.8.8 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. It is a buffer over-read in ps_mix_phase in libfaad/ps_dec.c.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0035
EPSS Percentile 57.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (4)
audiocoding/freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2 < 2.9.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
Published Jan 25, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026