usn-7890-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-11-26 11:40
Modified
2026-06-25 10:47
Summary
ffmpeg vulnerability
Details

It was discovered that FFmpeg did not properly handle the parsing of certain malformed HLS playlists. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted HLS playlist, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FFmpeg to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:47:01Z",
  "published": "2025-11-26T11:40:32Z",
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}



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