CVE-2019-15296: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2: version 2.8.8 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2019-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.