# CVE-2026-121601: Gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: out-of-bounds read in mxfdemux via unchecked delta\_id and slice index

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-120051, GHSA-PWWR-87P6-HJJ7
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-09 · Updated: 2026-11-09

CVE-2026-121601 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.1 (medium) and affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 2 more; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The MXF demuxer plugin in GStreamer's gst-plugins-bad (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free) can be made to crash an application or read limited heap memory when it opens a specially crafted MXF file. A local attacker can trigger this without logging in, but only if a user is tricked into opening the malicious file.

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

## Affected

- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: version range not reported
- gstreamer-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 GStreamer's MXF demuxer plugin (gst-plugins-bad). When processing a specially crafted MXF media file, the demuxer indexes its internal delta-entry and slice-offset tables using values from the file without validating that they are within the bounds of the allocated arrays. A local attacker who tricks a user into opening a malicious MXF file can cause the application to crash (denial of service) and may be able to read limited amounts of heap memory adjacent to the affected arrays.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-121601
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2565920
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0093.html

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