Out-of-Bounds Affecting knik0/faad2 package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KNIK0FAAD2-15674529
  • published18 Mar 2026
  • disclosed21 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-15296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade knik0/faad2 to version 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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 - words4, cast to uint32. If ld->buffer_size - words4 is negative, a buffer overflow is later performed via getdword_n(&ld->start[words], ld->bytes_left).

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