Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 30, 2026· Updated Oct 30, 2026

CVE-2026-119842

Description

A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119842nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/11238.patchnvd
gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0019.htmlnvd

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