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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-32272

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

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31 Oct 2026, 12:37 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-32272

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Sept 2021, 16:15 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2021-32272
Complete source record
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