CVE-2019-6956

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.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 66th percentile

Published

2019-01-25

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/faad/global-buffer-overflow%40ps_mix_phase.md42★ · 2019-10-31

Security advisories

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
• https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry