Vulnerabilities

FFmpeg 2.1 through 9.0.2 contains a use of uninitialized resource vulnerability in the PCX decoder that allows attackers to leak heap memory through…

FFmpeg 2.1 through 9.0.2 contains a use of uninitialized resource vulnerability in the PCX decoder that allows attackers to leak heap memory through truncated RLE scanlines. Attackers can craft a PCX image whose RLE data ends early, causing pcx_decode_frame() to copy uninitialized av_malloc() buffer contents into visible decoded pixels.

Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)

Vendor

FFmpeg

Product

FFmpeg

CVSS v3.1

5.5 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness

CWE-908

NVD status

Received

• NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
• CVE-2026-120244 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia

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