ubuntu-cve-2026-66037
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-07-24 20:18
Modified
2026-08-10 12:37
Summary
Details
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the IAMF demuxer that allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause multi-gigabyte memory allocation from a 17-byte input file by supplying a crafted count_label field. The mix_presentation_obu() function in libavformat/iamf_parse.c calls av_calloc(count_label, sizeof(*language_label)) with an attacker-controlled value before validating available OBU data, enabling an allocation amplification of approximately 126 million bytes per input byte that exhausts process memory or triggers an OOM-kill during format probing.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
5.5 (Medium)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "ffmpeg",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavcodec-extra",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavcodec-extra62",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavcodec62",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavdevice62",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavfilter-extra",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavfilter-extra11",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavfilter11",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavformat-extra",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavformat-extra62",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavformat62",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libavutil60",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libswresample6",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
},
{
"binary_name": "libswscale9",
"binary_version": "7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS",
"name": "ffmpeg",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ffmpeg@7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/resolute"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"7:7.1.1-1ubuntu4",
"7:7.1.2-1ubuntu3",
"7:7.1.2-1ubuntu4",
"7:7.1.3-1ubuntu1",
"7:8.0.1-2ubuntu1",
"7:8.0.1-3ubuntu1",
"7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2",
"7:8.0.1-3ubuntu2+esm1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the IAMF demuxer that allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause multi-gigabyte memory allocation from a 17-byte input file by supplying a crafted count_label field. The mix_presentation_obu() function in libavformat/iamf_parse.c calls av_calloc(count_label, sizeof(*language_label)) with an attacker-controlled value before validating available OBU data, enabling an allocation amplification of approximately 126 million bytes per input byte that exhausts process memory or triggers an OOM-kill during format probing.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66037",
"modified": "2026-08-10T12:37:00Z",
"published": "2026-07-24T20:18:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-66037"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66037"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23627"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/86708357d126af84c16f80d9c57335d1e8c845c5"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-iamf-demuxer-uncontrolled-resource-consumption-via-mix-presentation-obu"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2026-66037"
]
}
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