CVE-2026-125706 Gst-plugins-bad: gst-plugins-bad: missing bounds checks in mpeg ps pes header parsing
Medium 6.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-125706 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-125706 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 10 Nov 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125706 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125706/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-125706/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-125706?
CVE-2026-125706 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 10 Nov 2026.
Official description
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-bad MPEG Program Stream demuxer and resindvd DVD-playback plugin. The PES header parsers do not adequately check remaining data before reading timestamps and optional header fields. Opening a specially crafted MPEG Program Stream file can cause an out-of-bounds read and potentially crash the application, resulting in a denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-125706?
How do I fix CVE-2026-125706?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2026-125706 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-125706 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-125706, ECHO-cf68-7cf2-ade3, GHSA-7hw3-m4vp-x276, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-125706.