Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-6956

Title: Audiocoding Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-6956.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Jan 25, 2019

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.15%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

audiocoding 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/faad/global-buffer-overflow%40ps_mix_phase.md 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://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/ https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/faad/global-buffer-overflow%40ps_mix_phase.md 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://sourceforge.net/p/faac/bugs/240/ https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5109

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-6956 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 25, 2019 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.