CVE-2026-125233 PUBLISHED

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via DVB Subtitle Encoder

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

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

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

Credits

  • Secbuddy, Tencent Keen Security Lab (tested by kvartet) finder
  • Joshua Rogers (AISLE Research) reporter
  • Michael Niedermayer remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size CWE