CVE-2026-119842
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser
- Risk score
- 44/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 30 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
Original description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.
Last activity 30 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.