Bug 2506938 (CVE-2026-66038) - CVE-2026-66038 FFmpeg: Information disclosure via malformed zlib video stream
Summary: CVE-2026-66038 FFmpeg: Information disclosure via malformed zlib video stream
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-66038
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-24 21:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-29 17:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-24 21:01:43 UTC
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.


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