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CVE-2026-125209

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Description

FFmpeg before 8.1.3 and 9.x before 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the DVD subtitle encoder that underestimates RLE output size for odd-width rectangles. Attackers can supply files with crafted bitmap subtitles that, when transcoded to the dvdsub encoder, write past the output buffer and corrupt heap memory.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.5 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-09 19:16:57.643000
Last modified
2026-11-09 19:16:57.643000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-125209",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-11-09T19:16:57.643",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-09T19:16:57.643",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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    }
  ],
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          "packageURL": "pkg:github/ffmpeg/ffmpeg",
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      "url": "https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/24486",
      "source": "[email protected]"
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg",
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      "url": "https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.1/libavcodec/dvdsubenc.c#L344",
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