FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 8670835, contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the LCL/ZLIB video decoder that allows attackers to expose uninitialized heap memory by supplying a valid zlib stream that inflates to fewer bytes than the expected frame size. The zlib_decomp() function in lcldec.c treats short decompression as non-fatal and continues to the RGB24 conversion path, which copies a full frame's worth of rows from the allocation buffer using original frame dimensions, causing uninitialized heap contents including pointer-derived allocator bytes to be copied into the attacker-observable AVFrame output and potentially defeating ASLR in long-lived media processing services.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ffmpeg | — | Upgrade to FFmpeg version 9.0 | Sep 21, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libpostproc-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil-ffmpeg54 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra9 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter9 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-extra60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-ffmpeg5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc55 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc-ffmpeg53 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter6 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale9 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil55 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample-ffmpeg1 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample-ffmpeg2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra62 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libpostproc54 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-extra58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample6 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice62 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter11 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat62 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-extra62 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra11 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra60 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavutil58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec62 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec58 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavdevice-ffmpeg56 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libav-tools (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale-ffmpeg3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavcodec-extra57 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra6 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswscale-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavformat-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavresample4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade ffmpeg (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libavfilter-extra7 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libswresample4 (Ubuntu Pro) | Aug 25, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 |
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