CVE-2026-125252
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 VAAPI Memory Leak via Abandoned Picture Buffers
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in libavcodec/vaapi_decode.c that allows attackers to exhaust memory by supplying streams with slice parse errors. Attackers can craft H.264 or other VAAPI-decoded video where later slices fail to parse on every frame, continuously leaking VA parameter and slice buffers plus driver and heap memory.
Public vulnerability details
- Record state
- Published
- Published (UTC)
- Last updated (UTC)
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
- CVSS score
- 5.7 (CVSS v4.0, from VulnCheck)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- No KEV entry in this record. This does not show that the CVE is absent from the KEV catalog.
- Additional data from
- CISA-ADP
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/25231 (VulnCheck)
- Patch Commit (VulnCheck)
- Patch Commit (VulnCheck)
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/vaapi_decode.c#L117 (VulnCheck)
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg (VulnCheck)
- VulnCheck Advisory: FFmpeg through 9.0.2 VAAPI Memory Leak via Abandoned Picture Buffers (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 .