CVE-2019-6956

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6956

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.9.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.8.8-3.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.8.8-3.1
debian debianforkyfixed2.8.8-3.1
debian debiansidfixed2.8.8-3.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.8.8-3.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.