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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 …

Medium CVSS 6.5
CVECVE-2026-66038
First seen2026-08-07 01:15 UTC
Disclosed2026-07-24 20:18 UTC
Last updated2026-08-07 01:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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…

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Affected products

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Lint boundary warnings (2)

The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).

  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/e7cbfd1c507b57a806a5825b87d609963e862c8c
  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23626

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD