FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via HEVC VDPAU Tile Arrays

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FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via HEVC VDPAU Tile Arrays

Severity: high
Date: 11/9/2026
Affecting: FFmpeg <= 9.0.2
CVE: CVE-2026-125219
CWE: CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS: 7.3
CVSS V4 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/25136
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavcodec/vdpau_hevc.c#L163
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
Credit: Joshua Rogers (AISLE Research), Michael Niedermayer
Description: FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vdpau_hevc_start_frame() in libavcodec/vdpau_hevc.c that copies unbounded PPS tile counts into fixed-size VDPAU arrays. Attackers can supply crafted HEVC bitstreams with excessive tile columns or rows to write controlled 16-bit values past heap-allocated hwaccel data, corrupting memory in applications using VDPAU decoding.

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