Libaom: libaom: heap buffer overflow in av1 encoder first-pass stats buffer via lap mode
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.6epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 80% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in libaom, the reference AV1 codec implementation. A flaw in the AV1 encoder's Look-Ahead Processing (LAP) mode causes the first-pass stats ring buffer wrap-around guard to be bypassed when g_lag_in_frames is set to 1 or higher. This results in a 232-byte out-of-bounds write on every encoded frame after the second, corrupting adjacent heap objects. An attacker who can influence encoder configuration in a transcoding service or WebRTC session could exploit this to cause a denial of service (process crash) or potentially achieve code execution.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat AI Inference ServerRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 3.5 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat · Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30814https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42875https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47105https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56208https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/243f8ae84bhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490799https://issues.chromium.org/issues/504317456https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-56208.json