MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-125203 (CVSS 8.5)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 9, 2026Risk 37/100
FFmpeg before 8.1.3 and 9.x before 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Cook multichannel decoder in libavcodec/cook.c that fails to verify subpacket channel masks are disjoint. Attackers can supply a crafted RealMedia Cook stream with overlapping subpacket masks, causing cook_decode_frame() to write decoded samples beyond allocated output planes in any application decoding the file.
Technical details
CVSS
8.5
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive
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