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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-6956

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. It is a buffer over-read in ps_mix_phase in libfaad/ps_dec.c.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:24 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-6956

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jan 2019, 16:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. It is a buffer over-read in ps_mix_phase in libfaad/ps_dec.c.

osv:CVE-2019-6956
Complete source record
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