CVE-2026-125224 PUBLISHED

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Vorbis Parser CPU Exhaustion via Invalid Extradata

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 09.11.2026 Published: 09.11.2026 Updated: 09.11.2026

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/vorbis_parser.c that re-parses invalid extradata for every packet when valid_extradata remains false. Attackers can supply crafted Ogg or Matroska Vorbis streams with large invalid extradata and many packets to exhaust CPU during demuxing or probing.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.8

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	None	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Passive

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.5

Attack Vector	Local	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	FFmpeg
Product	FFmpeg
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 9.0.2 (incl.)

CVE-2026-125224 PUBLISHED

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Vorbis Parser CPU Exhaustion via Invalid Extradata

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