CVE-2026-70631

FFmpeg 0.5 < 9.0 Uninitialized Heap Memory Read in TIFF Decoder

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Aug 6, 2026
Updated
Aug 14, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2026

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Description

FFmpeg versions from 0.5 up to, but not including, 9.0 contain an uninitialized heap memory disclosure vulnerability in the native TIFF decoder in libavcodec/tiff.c. An attacker who can cause FFmpeg to decode a crafted TIFF file can supply a valid Deflate-compressed strip that terminates successfully after producing fewer bytes than the declared strip requires. The tiff_unpack_zlib() function allocates a heap buffer sized for the full declared strip but copies all declared rows via memcpy() regardless of how many bytes zlib actually decompressed, causing unwritten bytes that can contain stale data from prior heap allocations to be incorporated into decoded image output and potentially exposing sensitive data in persistent services.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FFmpegFFmpeg
  • 0.5 to before 9.0Affected

References

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