CVE-2026-18649
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.0%
59.9th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-770
Published 2026-08-06 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-good package. The rtph264depay and rtph265depay RTP depayloader elements do not enforce a maximum size limit on the reassembly buffer used during fragmented RTP packet processing. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a continuous stream of RTP fragments without ever transmitting an end-of-fragment marker, causing the reassembly buffer to grow without bound until process memory is exhausted. This results in a denial of service through process termination.
References
- https://0xsemizzz.vercel.app/projects/cve-2026-18649-gstreamer-rtp-dos/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53451
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53452
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56966
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61588
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61943
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65959
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65999
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69232
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70264
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70584
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70803
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510614
- https://github.com/0xSemizzz/CVE-2026-18649
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-security/-/merge_requests/113