Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Nov 9, 2026

CVE-2026-125237

Description

FFmpeg 8.1 through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/dpx.c that leaves dpx->hwaccel_picture_private allocated when Vulkan hwaccel callbacks fail. Attackers can supply crafted DPX images that make start_frame, decode_slice or end_frame fail, triggering an av_assert0 abort on the next frame and terminating the decoding application.

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Affected products

FFmpeg/Ffmpegllm-fuzzy
Range: 8.1 - 9.0.2

Patches

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References

code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25136nvd
github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/dpx.cnvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-8.1-through-9.0.2-denial-of-service-via-dpx-vulkan-hwaccel-error-pathnvd

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