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Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-15296): faad2 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2019-15296): faad2 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/21/2019
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

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).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-faad2

References

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