# CVE-2026-64830: FFmpeg 2.1 - 8.1.2 Heap Buffer Overflow via VobSub Subtitle Demuxer

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/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
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-07-22 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- FFmpeg: from 2.1, through 8.1.2

## Description

FFmpeg versions 2.1 through 8.1.2 contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the VobSub subtitle demuxer that allows attackers to corrupt adjacent heap memory by supplying a malicious .sub/.idx subtitle file declaring more distinct stream IDs than the fixed-size array bounds in libavformat/mpeg.c. Attackers can craft a subtitle file with excessive distinct stream IDs to trigger unbounded writes beyond the vobsub->q[] array boundary via ff_subtitles_queue_insert(), potentially achieving arbitrary code execution in any application using FFmpeg's VobSub demuxer.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23657
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/dbd495f066a85ba96b17433f4306582aa37c3951
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-heap-buffer-overflow-via-vobsub-subtitle-demuxer

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