CVE-2026-66038
HIGH
7,1
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: passive
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A
MEDIUM
6,5
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: required
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: none
Availability: none
Description
AI Translation Available
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 8670835, contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the LCL/ZLIB video decoder that allows attackers to expose uninitialized heap memory by supplying a valid zlib stream that inflates to fewer bytes than the expected frame size. The zlib_decomp() function in lcldec.c treats short decompression as non-fatal and continues to the RGB24 conversion path, which copies a full frame's worth of rows from the allocation buffer using original frame dimensions, causing uninitialized heap contents including pointer-derived allocator bytes to be copied into the attacker-observable AVFrame output and potentially defeating ASLR in long-lived media processing services.
908
Use of Uninitialized Resource
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Confidentiality
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Read Memory
Read Application Data
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/e7cbfd1c507b57a806a5825b87d609963e…
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23626
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-lcl-zlib-video-decoder-information-…