# CVE-2026-88914: Gstreamer1-plugins-good: gstreamer: integer overflow and out-of-bounds read in qtdemux cea-608 closed-caption parser

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-09-11

## Affected

- gstreamer1-plugins-good: version range not reported
- gstreamer-plugins-good: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-good: version range not reported
- gstreamer-plugins-good: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-good: version range not reported
- gstreamer1-plugins-good: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good isomp4 plugin. When processing a specially crafted MP4 or MOV file containing CEA-608 closed-caption data, an integer overflow in 32-bit unsigned arithmetic can bypass a bounds check in the caption parser. This leads to an out-of-bounds heap read of up to 244 bytes, which is then included in the downstream caption output. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a malicious media file, potentially resulting in disclosure of adjacent heap memory or application crash.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88914
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531416
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/12433
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0079.html

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