{"id":"CVE-2019-15296","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-15296","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:56:12.947Z","title":"The faad_resetbits function in libfaad/bits.c is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability.","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).","published":"2019-08-21T07:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:20:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["audiocoding/freeware advanced audio decoder 2","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01316,"percentile":0.70602,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.32%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/knik0/faad2/commit/942c3e0aee748ea6fe97cb2c1aa5893225316174","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15296","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}