{"id":"CVE-2019-15296","details":"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-\u003ebuffer_size - words*4, cast to uint32. If ld-\u003ebuffer_size - words*4 is negative, a buffer overflow is later performed via getdword_n(&ld-\u003estart[words], ld-\u003ebytes_left).","modified":"2026-05-14T12:01:18.144095409Z","published":"2019-08-21T07:15:10.830Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2025:15214-1"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"8.0"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/knik0/faad2","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"334e7647a5f31903aca33dde39bb8683e9d8cccd"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.8.8"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:audiocoding:freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2:2.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["2_8_8","2_8_7","2_8_6","2_8_5","2_8_4","2_8_3","2_8_2","2_8_1","2_8_0","FAAD2_2_7_1","FAAD2_2_7","FAAD2_2_5","ver_2_0","arelease"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15296.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}