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cisco -- OpenH264 Decoding Functions Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Affected packages
openh264 < 2.5.1

Details

VuXML ID 03ba1cdd-4faf-11f0-af06-00a098b42aeb
Discovery 2025-02-20
Entry 2025-06-22

Cisco reports:

A vulnerability in the decoding functions of OpenH264 codec library could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a heap overflow. This vulnerability is due to a race condition between a Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) memory allocation and a subsequent non Instantaneous Decoder Refresh (non-IDR) Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit memory usage. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious bitstream and tricking a victim user into processing an arbitrary video containing the malicious bistream. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause an unexpected crash in the victim's user decoding client and, possibly, perform arbitrary commands on the victim's host by abusing the heap overflow.

References

CVE Name CVE-2025-27091
URL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27091