A flaw was found in gst-plugins-base. A heap buffer overflow can be triggered when processing video buffers whose attached GstVideoMeta metadata declares plane strides and offsets that exceed the actual backing memory allocation. The metadata is not range-checked during deserialization, and the video frame mapping code does not verify that the declared plane geometry fits within the buffer before allowing consumers to read or write video data. A local attacker who controls the sending side of a GStreamer inter-process IPC pipeline can deliver a crafted buffer carrying fabricated strides, causing the receiving process to read or write beyond heap boundaries. Successful exploitation can cause a denial of service or potentially allow code execution within the affected process.
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If inter-process video sharing via unixfd is not required, build or deploy GStreamer without the unixfd plugin (for example meson option -Dgst-plugins-bad:unixfd=disabled, or omit libgstunixfd.so from the GStreamer plugin directory). Upstream confirms this is the only practical mitigation for the cross-process attack path and notes the unixfd plugin is not currently used by Red Hat-packaged or major distribution software. Operational policy to avoid connecting receiver pipelines to Unix socket endpoints controlled by untrusted local processes provides equivalent protection without rebuilding. This does not address the underlying validation gap in libgstvideo when attacker-controlled GstVideoMeta is supplied in-process.

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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in gst-plugins-base. A heap buffer overflow can be triggered when processing video buffers whose attached GstVideoMeta metadata declares plane strides and offsets that exceed the actual backing memory allocation. The metadata is not range-checked during deserialization, and the video frame mapping code does not verify that the declared plane geometry fits within the buffer before allowing consumers to read or write video data. A local attacker who controls the sending side of a GStreamer inter-process IPC pipeline can deliver a crafted buffer carrying fabricated strides, causing the receiving process to read or write beyond heap boundaries. Successful exploitation can cause a denial of service or potentially allow code execution within the affected process.
Title Gstreamer1-plugins-base: gst-plugins-base: heap buffer overflow via unvalidated gstvideometa plane extents in gst_video_frame_map_id and video_meta_deserialize
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-787
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-14T10:00:02.763Z

Reserved: 2026-09-07T15:33:12.901Z

Link: CVE-2026-86476

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-14T10:17:56.850

Modified: 2026-10-14T10:17:56.850

Link: CVE-2026-86476

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-10-14T07:56:11Z

Links: CVE-2026-86476 - Bugzilla

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