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USN-8716-2: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Ubuntu issued USN-8716-2 fixing FFmpeg VobSub, Vulkan HEVC, and NVDEC decoder flaws that could allow denial of service or code execution.

USN-8716-2 provides the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS counterpart to the FFmpeg fixes in USN-8716-1. Crafted media files could cause denial of service or arbitrary code execution through the VobSub subtitle demuxer (CVE-2026-64830), the Vulkan HEVC hardware decoder (CVE-2026-64831), and the NVDEC video decoder path.

Ubuntu Security Noticesupdated · 4d agofirst · 6d agoAdvisory 13 sourcesCVE-2026-64830CVE-2026-64831

USN-8738-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Ubuntu's USN-8738-1 fixes multiple FFmpeg vulnerabilities allowing denial of service, arbitrary code execution, and sensitive information exposure.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8738-1 addresses several FFmpeg flaws. CVE-2026-66036 involves mishandled video frames in the hqdn3d filter, allowing denial of service or arbitrary code execution. CVE-2026-66038, found by Adrian Junge, leaks sensitive information via compressed video files, and CVE-2026-66039 allows denial of service or code execution through crafted audio files. Additional subtitle-file handling flaws were also fixed.

Ubuntu Security Noticesupdated · 7d agofirst · 7d agoAdvisory 2 sourcesCVE-2026-66036CVE-2026-66038CVE-2026-66039

Video compressor

Simon Willison built a browser-based video compressor using the WebAssembly FFmpeg build, generated by Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web.

Willison recorded a demo video of his Equal Earth animation and wanted an optimized web-publishable version. He had Claude Fable 5.1 running in Claude Code for web build a compressor around the WebAssembly port of FFmpeg. The post is a short vibe-coding demonstration, not a model release or security event.

Simon Willison · 8d agoAI tools & infra

Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads

VODForge 0.1.8 is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app wrapping yt-dlp and FFmpeg for local YouTube video and playlist downloads.

VODForge is a Show HN release of a free, open-source (MIT) desktop application for macOS and Windows that downloads YouTube videos and playlists as MP4 (up to 4K) or MP3 (up to 320 kbps). It builds on yt-dlp and FFmpeg, adds queue, metadata, and cover-art controls, requires no account, and ships Developer ID notarized macOS builds and Authenticode-signed Windows installers with published SHA-256 checksums. A separate planned paid "Pro" cloud and mobile service is advertised alongside the free desktop app.

Related CVEs

  • FFmpeg versions 8.0 through 8.1.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Vulkan HEVC hardware decoder that allows remote attackers to overwrite r
    FFmpeg versions 8.0 through 8.1.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Vulkan HEVC hardware decoder that allows remote attackers to overwrite return addresses and adjacent stack frames by supplying a crafted HEVC/H.265 bitstream. Attackers can embed a malicious vps_num_hrd_parameters value exceeding HEVC_MAX_SUB_LAYERS in any supported container format to overflow stack-allocated arrays in the vk_hevc_end_frame function, potentially achieving arbitrary code execution.
    · ffmpeg ffmpeg
  • FFmpeg versions 2.1 through 8.1.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the VobSub subtitle demuxer that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent heap me
    FFmpeg versions 2.1 through 8.1.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the VobSub subtitle demuxer that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent heap memory by supplying a malicious .sub/.idx subtitle file declaring more distinct stream IDs than the fixed-size array bounds in libavformat/mpeg.c. Attackers can craft a subtitle file with excessive distinct stream IDs to trigger unbounded writes beyond the vobsub->q[] array boundary via ff_subtitles_queue_insert(), potentially achieving arbitrary code execution in any application using FFmpeg's VobSub demuxer.
    · ffmpeg ffmpeg
  • FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit aafb5c6, contains a signed integer overflow vulnerability in the MACE6 audio decoder that allows attackers to corrupt heap
    FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit aafb5c6, contains a signed integer overflow vulnerability in the MACE6 audio decoder that allows attackers to corrupt heap memory by supplying a crafted CAF file with a malicious bytes_per_packet value. Attackers can craft a CAF file with oversized bytes_per_packet and frames_per_packet values in the desc chunk to trigger an integer overflow in mace_decode_frame() during output sample count computation, resulting in an undersized buffer allocation and heap out-of-bounds write that could enable code execution.
    · ffmpeg ffmpeg
  • FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the vf_hqdn3d filter that allows attackers to corrupt heap m
    FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 5d7112c, contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the vf_hqdn3d filter that allows attackers to corrupt heap memory by supplying a crafted video whose frame resolution increases between frames when filtergraph reinitialization is disabled via the -reinit_filter 0 option. Attackers can provide a malicious video input where vf_hqdn3d.config_input() allocates undersized per-plane line-history buffers based on the initial frame width, and subsequent larger frames cause denoise_spatial() to write beyond the allocation boundary, resulting in heap…
    · ffmpeg ffmpeg
  • 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 un
    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…
    · ffmpeg ffmpeg

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