CVE-2026-89873

CVE-2026-89873

High · published September 16, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts

The HEVC SPS control carries the short-term and long-term RPS counts

that decoder drivers use to walk the matching EXT SPS dynamic arrays.

Reject SPS values that exceed the HEVC limits of 64 short-term sets and

32 long-term references so drivers cannot later index beyond those

controls.

Also reject EXT SPS ST RPS entries whose negative or positive picture

counts exceed the 16-entry arrays, or whose combined delta-POC count

exceeds the HEVC DPB maximum.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00165 · 5.4th percentile
Published
2026-09-16T15:16Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 04:02Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 16 SEP 10:31Z
    media: v4l2-ctrls: validate HEVC EXT SPS RPS counts
    cvelistv5