High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-6956
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
{
"id": "ca640fb2146141b25f87f49b7e01cea5557916069853d054de8a86d7c7e5cd33",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6956",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2019-6956",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-6956",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2019-6956",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2019-6956"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/knik0/faad2",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "365532ebc7772464a1aa17cefd3bfdce6648266d"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:audiocoding:freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.9.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"2_8_8",
"2_8_7",
"2_8_6",
"2_8_5",
"2_8_4",
"2_8_3",
"2_8_2",
"2_8_1",
"2_8_0",
"FAAD2_2_7_1",
"FAAD2_2_7",
"FAAD2_2_5",
"ver_2_0",
"arelease"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-6956.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:28.271523244Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00020.html",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109",
"https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/",
"https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/faad/global-buffer-overflow%40ps_mix_phase.md"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "8.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "8.0"
},
{
"introduced": "9.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
},
{
"introduced": "10.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "10.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2019-6956",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 432016,
"published_at": "2019-01-25T16:29:00.353+00:00"
}