CVE-2026-125257
Description
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains an off-by-one heap overflow vulnerability in get_exponent_dynamic() in libavcodec/nellymoserenc.c that allows writing one element past the opt and path allocations. Attackers can supply crafted audio to applications encoding Nellymoser with trellis enabled, causing idx to equal OPT_SIZE and overwrite adjacent heap memory.
CVSS Base Scores
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| FFmpeg | FFmpeg | 0 | affected |
Credits
- Zheng Yu(finder)
- Joshua Rogers (AISLE Research)(reporter)
- Michael Niedermayer(remediation developer)
References
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/24471
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/733bec3e19759520ccdbeb6c3c0cae280bbe6dc5
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/nellymoserenc.c#L262
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-through-9.0.2-heap-overflow-via-nellymoser-encoder-trellis-search


