CVE-2026-56208
Libaom: libaom: heap buffer overflow in av1 encoder first-pass stats buffer via lap mode
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.6EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
19 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in libaom, the reference AV1 codec implementation. A flaw in the AV1 encoder's Look-Ahead Processing (LAP) mode causes the first-pass stats ring buffer wrap-around guard to be bypassed when g_lag_in_frames is set to 1 or higher. This results in a 232-byte out-of-bounds write on every encoded frame after the second, corrupting adjacent heap objects. An attacker who can influence encoder configuration in a transcoding service or WebRTC session could exploit this to cause a denial of service (process crash) or potentially achieve code execution.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened ImagesReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30814https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56208https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/243f8ae84bhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490799https://issues.chromium.org/issues/504317456https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-56208.json