Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 9, 2026· Updated Nov 9, 2026
CVE-2026-125040
CVE-2026-125040
Description
A flaw was found in the SRT and WebVTT subtitle parser in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base. While sanitizing inline subtitle markup, the parser repeatedly searches the remaining text with unanchored regular expressions. A crafted subtitle cue with a long line of unmatched markup-like text can force quadratic CPU use and make a GStreamer-based application unresponsive.
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