CVE-2026-66040

FFmpeg Heap Out-of-Bounds Write via PNG/APNG eXIf Encoder

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Jul 24, 2026
Updated
Jul 29, 2026
Reserved
Jul 23, 2026

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Description

FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit b506faf, contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the native PNG and APNG encoders that allows remote attackers to corrupt heap memory by supplying a crafted PNG image with a malicious eXIf chunk. Attackers can craft an eXIf chunk where multiple IFD entries reference the same large value payload, causing canonical serialization to expand the output far beyond the undersized allocation estimated by add_exif_profile_size(), resulting in png_write_chunk() writing tens of thousands of bytes past the buffer boundary, leading to deterministic heap corruption, process crash, and potentially arbitrary code execution.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FFmpegFFmpeg
  • 8.1.2 and earlierAffected
  • b506fafec9a19fcbc2be5271875fd4a63d6615bcNot affected

References

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