CVE-2026-52722

NameCVE-2026-52722
DescriptionA signed integer overflow vulnerability was found in GStreamer's VMnc decoder. A crafted VMnc stream with large cursor dimensions can overflow signed integer payload-size arithmetic, bypassing a length check and leading to out-of-bounds reads. A remote attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted VMnc file, potentially causing a crash or information disclosure.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gst-plugins-bad1.0 (PTS)bullseye1.18.4-3+deb11u4vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.18.4-3+deb11u6vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.22.0-4+deb12u7vulnerable
trixie1.26.2-3+deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)1.26.2-3+deb13u2vulnerable
forky, sid1.28.4-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gst-plugins-bad1.0source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[trixie] - gst-plugins-bad1.0 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486733
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0046.html
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/work_items/5107 (private)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/commit/6c146775d784bbe91ff7afc6701ba351306282ce (1.29.2)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/commit/d30966b87f3a1358b01ec404607f6c9b2f10e9f7 (1.26 branch)

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