CVE-2026-64830CWE-122

FFmpeg 2.1 - 8.1.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via VobSub Subtitle Demuxer

High · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00646 · 50.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-07-22T16:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 16:33Z
    FFmpeg 2.1 - 8.1.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via VobSub Subtitle Demuxer
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