CVE detail
CVE-2026-66038
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 8670835, contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the LCL/ZLIB video decoder that allows attackers to expose uninitialized heap memory by supplying a valid zlib stream that inflates to fewer bytes than the expected frame size. The zlib_decomp() function in lcldec.c treats short decompression as non-fatal and continues to the RGB24 conversion path, which copies a full frame's worth of rows from the allocation buffer using original frame dimensions, causing uninitialized heap contents including pointer-derived allocator bytes to be copied into the attacker-observable AVFrame output and potentially defeating ASLR in long-lived media processing services.
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Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
Mention timeline
- Total mentions
- 3
- within the 30d window
- Peak daily
- 3
- highest bucket
Evidence
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3 source links · newest first
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-lcl-zlib-video-decoder-information-disclosure-via-lcldec-cwww.vulncheck.com
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Exploitwww.vulncheck.comJul 24, 2026, 8:18 PM - https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23626code.ffmpeg.org
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Patchcode.ffmpeg.orgJul 24, 2026, 8:18 PM - https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/e7cbfd1c507b57a806a5825b87d609963e862c8ccode.ffmpeg.org
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Patchcode.ffmpeg.orgJul 24, 2026, 8:18 PM
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