CVE-2026-86476

Publication date 14 October 2026

Last updated 9 November 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.4 · High

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in gst-plugins-base. A heap buffer overflow can be triggered when processing video buffers whose attached GstVideoMeta metadata declares plane strides and offsets that exceed the actual backing memory allocation. The metadata is not range-checked during deserialization, and the video frame mapping code does not verify that the declared plane geometry fits within the buffer before allowing consumers to read or write video data. A local attacker who controls the sending side of a GStreamer inter-process IPC pipeline can deliver a crafted buffer carrying fabricated strides, causing the receiving process to read or write beyond heap boundaries. Successful exploitation can cause a denial of service or potentially allow code execution within the affected process.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gst-plugins-base1.0 26.10 stonking
Vulnerable
26.04 LTS resolute
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
gst-plugins-base1.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.4 · High

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


Access our resources on patching vulnerabilities