HIGHVulnerability

CVE-2026-66040

FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit b506faf, contains a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the native PNG and APNG encoders that allows remote attackers to corrupt heap memory by supplying a crafted PNG image with a malicious eXIf chunk. Attackers can craft an eXIf chunk where multiple IFD entries reference the same large value payload, causing canonical serialization to expand the output far beyond the undersized allocation estimated by add_exif_profile_size(), resulting in png_write_chunk() writing tens of thousands of bytes past the buffer boundary, leading to deterministic heap corruption, process crash, and potentially arbitrary code execution.

Properties

severity
HIGH
score
8.8
cve_id
CVE-2026-66040
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
published_at
2026-07-24T20:18:21.063
last_modified
2026-08-07T00:35:29.773

Related Entities (3)

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)

[Product]

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Heap-based Buffer Overflow

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