MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-125250 (CVSS 8.5)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 9, 2026Risk 37/100
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow in the GIF encoder's gif_image_write_image() in libavcodec/gif.c because shrunk_buf is sized from the first frame's linesize. Attackers can supply PAL8 video whose frame linesize grows mid-stream, causing remap_frame_to_palette() to write past shrunk_buf and corrupt the heap during GIF transcoding.
Technical details
CVSS
8.5
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive
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