GCVE-1988-2026-0423

Vulnerability from gna-1988 – Published: 2026-10-02 04:57 – Updated: 2026-10-02 04:57
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Title
[NotCVE-2026-0019] game-music-emu through 0.6.5 VGM Command Interpreter Missing Operand Length Check Allows Heap Out-of-Bounds Read
Summary
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NotCVE Advisory — NotCVE-2026-0019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Summary: An out-of-bounds read in the VGM command interpreter of game-music-emu (libgme), the open-source video game music emulation library, allows an attacker who supplies a crafted .vgm or .vgz file to read heap memory past the end of the buffer holding the file. The read happens as soon as playback begins. CVSS:3.1 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L). [-] Affected: game-music-emu (libgme) through 0.6.5 (present in 0.6.0, 0.6.3 and 0.6.5), and master as of commit fe8da4b. Default builds; no fixed version is verified. [-] Technical Description: The command loop of Vgm_Emu_Impl::run_commands() (gme/Vgm_Emu_Impl.cpp) is bounded only by while ( vgm_time < end_time && pos < data_end ) which validates the position of the opcode byte and nothing else. Each opcode handler then fetches its operands from pos unconditionally. The source records the gap in a TODO at the loop head: "be sure there are enough bytes left in stream for particular command so we don't read past end". When a command stream ends right after an opcode byte, the operand fetch crosses the end of the allocation made by Gme_File::load_(). Maximum over-read per handler: - PSG and Game Gear register writes (*pos++): 1 byte - 16-bit delay 0x61 (pos[0], pos[1]): up to 2 bytes - YM2413 and YM2612 register writes: up to 2 bytes - PCM seek 0xE0 (pos[0] .. pos[3]): up to 4 bytes - data block header 0x67 (pos[1], get_le32( pos + 2 )): up to 6 bytes The bytes read are consumed as sound-chip register data, so adjacent heap contents can influence the decoded audio (limited, indirect disclosure). AddressSanitizer aborts on the over-read; the researcher's two proof-of-concept files reproduce it at two sites (a trailing 0x50 PSG write and a trailing 0x67 data block header). Under a standard allocator a read of this size normally stays within the same chunk, so a crash is layout-dependent rather than reliable. No write, length control or code execution is shown. Reachability: VGM/VGZ support is in the default build. FFmpeg's libavformat/libgme.c calls gme_open_data() and then gme_start_track() inside read_header_gme(), so a server-side transcoder reaches the defect while merely reading a file's header. VLC exposes the library through its gme demux module, which handles VGM and VGZ. Weaknesses: CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE-126: Buffer Over-read CAPEC-540: Overread Buffers [-] Credit: Discovered by netspacer1124 (https://github.com/netspacer1124). [-] Full Details and Updates: https://notcve.org/notcve/NotCVE-2026-0019 [-] Main References: https://github.com/libgme/game-music-emu https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libgme/game-music-emu/0.6.5/gme/Vgm_Emu_Impl.cpp https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/5.1/libgme_8c_source.html [-] About NotCVE: NotCVE (https://notcve.org) assigns public, timestamped NotCVE IDs to vulnerabilities not acknowledged by vendors. Vendor will not assign a CVE? Request a NotCVE: https://notcve.org/form/ · Contributors: https://notcve.org/hall/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
VULNARCHIVE GNA GNA-1988
GNA scorecard E 38/100 over 445 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Game Music Emu Project Game Music Emu Affected: unknown
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Credits

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