CVE-2019-15296

high

Description

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).

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html

https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-08-21

Updated: 2020-06-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High