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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-66037 json

FFmpeg IAMF Demuxer Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via mix_presentation_obu()

published 2026-07-24 3 mo ago modified 2026-08-08 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-48739 , GHSA-qqrg-chvw-q8jp , JLSEC-2026-1183

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia FFMPEG_jll 9.0.0+0
  • julia FFMPEG_nogpl_jll 9.0.0+0
  • julia FFplay_jll 9.0.0+0
  • ffmpeg Debian 14 7:9.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-66037

  • ffmpeg-7 openSUSE Leap 16.0 7.1.5-160000.1.1
  • ffmpeg-8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.1.2-3.1
  • ffmpeg-7 openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.5-2.1
  • ffmpeg-9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.1-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21877-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11682-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11665-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11545-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-66037 updated cvss 6.5

FFmpeg: FFmpeg: Denial of Service via uncontrolled resource consumption in IAMF demuxer

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 ffmpeg, rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-azure-cuda-rhel9, +1 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9 1789121263
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:73987
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai/odh-cli-rhel9 1790070206, rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9 1790070206, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9 1789653606, rhoai/odh-trainer-rhel9 1790136369, rhoai/odh-maas-api-rhel9 1790131842, rhoai/odh-mlserver-rhel9 1789121365, +76 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.1 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
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 7.1 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia FFMPEG_jll
<9.0.0+0
9.0.0+0
julia FFMPEG_nogpl_jll
<9.0.0+0
9.0.0+0
julia FFplay_jll
<9.0.0+0
9.0.0+0

Affected products

  • FFmpeg FFmpeg

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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