Bug 2507460 (CVE-2026-17512)

Summary: CVE-2026-17512 whisper.cpp: whisper.cpp: Information disclosure via out-of-bounds read
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A flaw was found in whisper.cpp. A local attacker can exploit an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the `log_mel_spectrogram` function. This flaw could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-27 13:02:31 UTC 
A vulnerability has been found in ggml-org whisper.cpp 1.8.4-58. This impacts the function log_mel_spectrogram of the file src/whisper.cpp. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be performed locally. The pull request to fix this issue awaits acceptance.