# CVE-2026-40614: PJSIP: Heap buffer overflow in Opus codec decoding

- Severity: CVSS 8.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-21 · Updated: 2026-04-22

## Affected

- pjsip pjproject: through 2.16

## Description

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C. In 2.16 and earlier, there is a buffer overflow when decoding Opus audio frames due to insufficient buffer size validation in the Opus codec decode path. The FEC decode buffers (dec_frame[].buf) were allocated based on a PCM-derived formula: (sample_rate/1000) * 60 * channel_cnt * 2. At 8 kHz mono this yields only 960 bytes, but codec_parse() can output encoded frames up to MAX_ENCODED_PACKET_SIZE (1280) bytes via opus_repacketizer_out_range(). The three pj_memcpy() calls in codec_decode() copied input->size bytes without bounds checking, causing a heap buffer overflow.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pjsip pjproject, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/security/advisories/GHSA-j59p-4xrr-fp8g
- https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/commit/17897e835818f8ee03b1806ddcd7b95ea16d2c0e

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