CVE-2026-66038

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23626
• https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/e7cbfd1c507b57a806a5825b87d609963e862c8c
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-lcl-zlib-video-decoder-information-disclosure-via-lcldec-c

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