CVE-2018-19503: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a stack-based buffer overflow in the function calculate_gain() in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c.

Affected products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: version 2.8.1 only

Published 2018-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.