CVE-2026-64830
HIGHFFmpeg 2.1 - 8.1.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via VobSub Subtitle Demuxer
Title source: cnaDescription
FFmpeg versions 2.1 through 8.1.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the VobSub subtitle demuxer that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent heap memory by supplying a malicious .sub/.idx subtitle file declaring more distinct stream IDs than the fixed-size array bounds in libavformat/mpeg.c. Attackers can craft a subtitle file with excessive distinct stream IDs to trigger unbounded writes beyond the vobsub->q[] array boundary via ff_subtitles_queue_insert(), potentially achieving arbitrary code execution in any application using FFmpeg's VobSub demuxer.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch patch
Patch Commit
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/dbd495f066a85ba96b17433f4306582aa37c3951
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-heap-buffer-overflow-via-vobsub-subtitle-demuxer
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
27.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-122
Status
published
Products (3)
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
2.1 - 8.1.2
ffmpeg/ffmpeg
2.1 - 8.1.2
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
dbd495f066a85ba96b17433f4306582aa37c3951
Published
Jul 22, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 22, 2026