CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-8461
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in FFmpeg's libavcodec library, specifically in the MagicYUV decoder, allows denial-of-service and, in some cases, can be exploited for remote code execution.
This vulnerability is associated with the file libavcodec/magicyuv.C.
This issue affects FFmpeg before version 8.1.2.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23159 code.ffmpeg.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43711 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8461 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490308 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-8461.json security.access.redhat.com