CVE-2026-119842
mediumA flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser.
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-base MicroDVD subtitle parser. When processing a specially crafted subtitle file, the parser may dereference a NULL pointer, causing the application to crash when a user opens or plays media with a malformed MicroDVD (.sub) subtitle file.
CVSS
6.5
6.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-30 19:18
Modified: 2026-10-30 23:17
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 23:29 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119842 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2564183 secalert@redhat.com
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/11238.patch secalert@redhat.com
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/security/sa-2026-0019.html secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 23:29 UTC · record ↗