CVE-2026-125186: medium-severity vulnerability in FFmpeg
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 CPU Exhaustion via dts2pts Bitstream Filter
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10Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.7
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the dts2pts bitstream filter that allows attackers to exhaust CPU through unbounded per-packet POC node allocation. Attackers can supply a crafted H.264 packet with many slices of alternating picture order counts, forcing h264_queue_frame() to allocate tree nodes per slice and deny service.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
FFmpeg · FFmpegRelated CVEs — FFmpeg
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-8461HIGHHeap out-of-bounds write via odd slice_height in FFmpeg MagicYUV decoderEPSS 1.6%CVE-2026-64831HIGHFFmpeg 8.0 - 8.1.2 Stack Buffer Overflow in Vulkan HEVC DecoderEPSS 0.9%CVE-2026-66040HIGHFFmpeg Heap Out-of-Bounds Write via PNG/APNG eXIf EncoderEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-64834HIGHFFmpeg 0.6.3 - 8.1.2 Infinite Loop DoS via RTP/ASF DemuxerEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-75143CRITICALFFmpeg Heap Buffer Overflow via RIST Protocol ReaderEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-64830HIGHFFmpeg 2.1 - 8.1.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via VobSub Subtitle DemuxerEPSS 0.6%
References
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25569https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeghttps://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/bsf/dts2pts.c#L363https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/d8013c061725631261d7326c07d2af3a67fa4bc1https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-through-9.0.2-cpu-exhaustion-via-dts2pts-bitstream-filter