FFmpeg Out-of-Bounds Read in DASH Demuxer via dashdec.c
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
FFmpeg before commit 65b0dab contains an out-of-bounds read in the DASH demuxer (libavformat/dashdec.c). When a live DASH manifest is refreshed with a startNumber that is lower than the previous value, the current sequence number is driven negative. The fragment retrieval function checked only the upper bound before indexing the fragments array, allowing a negative index to be used and causing an out-of-bounds read. A malicious or misconfigured DASH server can trigger this by serving a live manifest with a decreasing startNumber across a manifest refresh.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2026:94488 Released 2026-11-03 · Red Hat rating ImportantRHEL AI 3.5 RPM runtime CVE fix - ffmpeg
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.5 for RHEL 9 ffmpeg-6.1.6-10.el9ai, ffmpeg-free-rhai-6.1.6-10.el9ai, ffmpeg-free-rhai-devel-6.1.6-10.el9ai +16
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.5 for RHEL 9 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:94488 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-75146
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-564v-jr2q-mgwf
- 2026-11-03 Fix available: RHSA-2026:94488 · Red Hat
- 2026-11-03 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.5 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
References
Patch 1
Other 1
More FFmpeg vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-19015 FFmpeg git-master before commit d5873b was discovered to contain a memory leak in the component libavutil/iamf.c. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-21238 FFmpeg 7.0 contains a heap-buffer-overflow at libavfilter/vf_tiltandshift.c:189:5 in copy_column. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
- TI-2023-06050 Ffmpeg: null pointer dereference in ffmpeg hls parsing CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-28420 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2023-27357 FFmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a heap-based buffer overflow via the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2023-27044 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg version n6.1-3-g466799d4f5, allows a local… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-75146 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-75146 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-564v-jr2q-mgwf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-75146 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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