# CVE-2026-121259: Gst-plugins-bad: gst-plugins-bad: integer overflows and division by zero in jpeg 2000 decimator

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

CVE-2026-121259 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) and affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 1 more; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The GStreamer multimedia framework's JPEG 2000 decoding component (gst-plugins-bad) is affected. Specially crafted JPEG 2000 files can trigger integer overflows and division-by-zero errors, potentially causing applications that process them to crash.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the GStreamer JPEG 2000 decimator in gst-plugins-bad. Crafted JPEG 2000 media can cause integer overflows or division by zero during tile processing. An application that processes the malicious media may crash, resulting in a denial of service.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-121259
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2565686
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.28/
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0015.html

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