CVE-2026-125232 PUBLISHED

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Division by Zero in B-frame Motion Estimation

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

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a division by zero vulnerability in estimate_motion_b() in libavcodec/motion_est.c, caused by frame timestamp distances truncated to 16 bits. Attackers can supply input with timestamp gaps that are multiples of 65536, crashing MPEG-4 Part 2 or MPEG-1/2 B-frame encoding with SIGFPE.

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-2026-125232 PUBLISHED

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Division by Zero in B-frame Motion Estimation

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