CVE-2026-65704

Description

A flaw was found in FFmpeg. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted ffconcat file, which, when processed with the -safe 0 flag, triggers an out-of-bounds write. This occurs due to improper bounds checking in the TY demuxer's demux_audio() function, leading to heap corruption. Successful exploitation can result in arbitrary code execution, allowing the attacker to take control of the affected system.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has multiple layers of heap protection. NX/DEP (Non-Executable Memory) prevents code execution from heap, thus mitigating the code execution part of the exploit.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score5.5N/A7.8
Attack VectorLocalN/ALocal
Attack ComplexityLowN/ALow
Privileges RequiredNoneN/ANone
User InteractionRequiredN/ARequired
ScopeUnchangedN/AUnchanged
ConfidentialityNoneN/AHigh
Integrity ImpactNoneN/AHigh
Availability ImpactHighN/AHigh

Vector

Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Integrity

Technical Impact: Modify Memory; Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands

Write operations could cause memory corruption. In some cases, an adversary can modify control data such as return addresses in order to execute unexpected code.

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Attempting to access out-of-range, invalid, or unauthorized memory could cause the product to crash.

Other

Technical Impact: Unexpected State

Subsequent write operations can produce undefined or unexpected results.

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