CVE-2026-125250
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 GIF Encoder Heap Buffer Overflow via shrunk_buf Remap
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow in the GIF encoder's gif_image_write_image() in libavcodec/gif.c because shrunk_buf is sized from the first frame's linesize. Attackers can supply PAL8 video whose frame linesize grows mid-stream, causing remap_frame_to_palette() to write past shrunk_buf and corrupt the heap during GIF transcoding.
Public vulnerability details
- Record state
- Published
- Published (UTC)
- Last updated (UTC)
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
- CVSS score
- 8.5 (CVSS v4.0, from VulnCheck)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CISA KEV
- No KEV entry in this record. This does not show that the CVE is absent from the KEV catalog.
- Additional data from
- None
FHE assessment
No FHE assessment is available in this application yet. This does not mean FHE cannot mitigate an impact of this CVE.
References
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25690 (VulnCheck)
- Patch Commit (VulnCheck)
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/gif.c#L405 (VulnCheck)
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg (VulnCheck)
- VulnCheck Advisory: FFmpeg through 9.0.2 GIF Encoder Heap Buffer Overflow via shrunk_buf Remap (VulnCheck)
Source
CVE JSON 5.2 record from the CVE List archive 2026-11-09_delta_CVEs_at_end_of_day.zip, which covers changes through . Imported .