CVE-2008-4201: Audiocoding FAAD2

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the decodeMP4file function (frontend/main.c) in FAAD2 2.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MPEG-4 (MP4) file.

Affected products

• Audiocoding FAAD2: up to and including 2.6.1; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.5 only

Published 2008-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.