GStreamer gst-plugins-bad out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GStreamer. This impacts an unknown function of the component gst-plugins-bad. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-52719. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GStreamer (affected version not known). Affected is some unknown functionality of the component gst-plugins-bad. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the VA JPEG decoder in GStreamer's gst-plugins-bad. The JPEG parser reads a segment length value from the bitstream without validating it against available data. A remote attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted JPEG file, causing downstream parsing to read beyond the provided input buffer, leading to a crash or potential information disclosure.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-52719 since 06/08/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/16/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 321147 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-52719), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (321147) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1919). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Open Source GStreamer

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• Multimedia Processing Software

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• GStreamer

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• open-source

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