CVE-2018-19503

7.8 highEPSS 1.5%

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. There was a stack-based buffer overflow in the function calculate_gain() in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2018-11-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

audiocoding:freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2

References

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faad
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-17
https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4522

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