CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-125233

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in dvbsub_encode() in libavcodec/dvbsubenc.c that undercounts each CLUT segment header by two bytes. Attackers can supply a file with many bitmap subtitle rectangles that, when transcoded to the dvbsub encoder, writes past the output buffer and corrupts heap memory.

Risk Assessment

Processing malicious media files with FFmpeg may lead to memory corruption, application crashes, and potentially code execution in the context of the transcoding process.

Recommendation

Update FFmpeg to a patched version or avoid transcoding untrusted files to the dvbsub format until the update is applied.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in dvbsub_encode() in libavcodec/dvbsubenc.c that undercounts each CLUT segment header by two bytes. Attackers can supply a file with many bitmap subtitle rectangles that, when transcoded to the dvbsub encoder, writes past the output buffer and corrupts heap memory.

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