Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 24, 2026· Updated Aug 7, 2026
CVE-2026-66037
CVE-2026-66037
Description
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the IAMF demuxer that allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause multi-gigabyte memory allocation from a 17-byte input file by supplying a crafted count_label field. The mix_presentation_obu() function in libavformat/iamf_parse.c calls av_calloc(count_label, sizeof(*language_label)) with an attacker-controlled value before validating available OBU data, enabling an allocation amplification of approximately 126 million bytes per input byte that exhausts process memory or triggers an OOM-kill during format probing.
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Affected products
7- osv-coords5 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/ffmpeg-6pkg:rpm/opensuse/ffmpeg-7&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/ffmpeg-7&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/ffmpeg-8&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/ffmpeg-9&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 0+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.5-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.5-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.1.2-3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1-2.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3News mentions
1- Multiple FFmpeg Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Corrupt Memory Via Malicious Video FileCyber Security News · Jul 28, 2026