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CVE-2025-59728

Heap-buffer-overflow write in FFmpeg MDASH resolve_content_path

Published: Oct 6, 2025Updated: Oct 6, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-787
6.4CVSSMEDIUM

Description

When calculating the content path in handling of MPEG-DASH manifests, there's an out-of-bounds NUL-byte write one byte past the end of the buffer.When we call xmlNodeGetContent below [0], it returns a buffer precisely allocated to match the string length, using strdup internally. If this buffer is not an empty string, it is assigned to root_url at [1].If the last (non-NUL) byte in this buffer is not '/' then we append '/' in-place at [2]. This will write two bytes into the buffer, starting at the last valid byte in the buffer, writing the NUL byte beyond the end of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading to version 8.0 or beyond.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:AAC:HC:HI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:AAccess Vector
Adjacent Network
AC:HAccess Complexity
High
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
H
I:HIntegrity
H
A:NAvailability
None

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ffmpegoss-projectUSOSS Librariesaka libavcodec
ffmpeg teamoss-projectOSS Librariesaka ffmpeg

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
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References

Timeline

Published
Oct 6, 2025
Last Updated
Oct 6, 2025

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