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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-32273

An issue was discovered in faad2 through 2.10.0. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function ftypin located in mp4read.c. It allows an attacker to cause Code Execution.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-32273

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Sept 2021, 16:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in faad2 through 2.10.0. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function ftypin located in mp4read.c. It allows an attacker to cause Code Execution.

osv:CVE-2021-32273
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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