ubuntu-cve-2026-56208
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-06-19 17:16
Modified
2026-06-24 09:03
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in libaom, the reference AV1 codec implementation. A flaw in the AV1 encoder\u0027s 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-56208",
  "modified": "2026-06-24T09:03:12Z",
  "published": "2026-06-19T17:16:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-56208"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490799"
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      "type": "REPORT",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-56208"
  ]
}



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